Here in Campbeltown a lot of folk wish each other a “Good New Year” in early January.

I like that. Happy New Year is a nice greeting too. It’s just that “Happy” is such a fickle and fleeting condition. If you’ve ever gone chasing after “Happy” you’ll find that it often simply flits away like some demonic butterfly, always a flower away, always just out of reach of the net.

And, meanwhile, you end up missing the beauty and glory of the meadow that you were running around in. It’s a shame.

“Good” seems to me to be a lot more of a solid, achievable, and worthwhile goal. It’s not dependent on the circumstances that arise, but depends far more upon us making the most of them when they do arise.

So personally the only resolution is to try and make this a good year, whatever happens. And I would like to wish A Good New Year To You too.

I do hope we all get some great moments of Happy along the way though.