Facing the New Year in Times Square

I don't think I want to go down therrre.....

Is the reluctant ball anxious about joining the revelers in New York? Maybe he/she is apprehensive about the year to come. After all, we weren't always especially nice to 2012  with all that  apocalypse, fiscal cliff, what- if- my- political candidate -or- sports team- doesn't win alarmism.
   On the other hand, I was buoyed by reading a blog by a potter friend of mine who reviewed his own year and spoke of the ways he's grown personally and in his art. Today might be a good day for me to think about what 2012 brought to our home. See ya "next year".