A New Year's Resolution

After a week or two of mental rest and emotional easing, of public withdrawal and private return, of outward quiet and inner recomposition, of forward blindness and rearward clarity, of not forgiving and forgetting but of remembering and reckoning, and of peace-making, I will hold myself to a single resolution: to be a gracious and subservient subject of the Great and Fearsome Sandra — Sandra the Hideous, Ripper of Faces — and to accept, with humility and respect, the new order into which I expect to return.