Today’s wonderful so far. After lots of days with gray (grey) clouds there’s change. The sun is out and not just for one minute. Also today, I thought many thoughts about what I want to write about but let’s keep this short so I can sit in the sun for a bit longer and watch the sky, the birds, the trees.

One thing I thought about is our Hello. For years I felt a bit uncomfortable when I would see people from the USA or Canada, and hearing their enthusiastic

“Hi! How are you ?”

But thanks to all my reading on The Fediverse I’ve learned that it is common practice (when talking to US-citizens or Canadians) to just repeat that same sentence that they are saying, (or rather shouting,) and then quickly go into a regular conversation.

In Dutch it is kind of different. When I come across people I know in the streets they would ask :  “Hi, how are you ?” and then more often than not I respond with for example “Today I am kind of OK”, and surprisingly often they would respond with wide open eyes

“What ??? Yesterday not ???”

Usually I have responded with “Every day is different” or something similar. But the others don’t seem to get used to this. Should I go lying mode and always say “Good! How are you ?”.  Well, I will not obey, not yet 🙂

So today, for now … I will say to the brand new shiny year :

Hello 2025! How are you today?

I hope this time your orbit around the sun will bring many changes for the better.

For a just and social new year.

And if you have not seen this cool dragon drone show in China have a look at this short video.