It isn't clear exactly how a person is supposed to meet with the beginning of another year, and there likely isn't any truly simple way to go about it. People do look for easier ways, and this looking is often both well-meaning and frantic, but these easier ways don't necessarily help, and what sometimes appear to be preventative or protective measures against the inevitable outpouring of a new-year-beginning can in fact leave you feeling emptier and more at sea than if you had instead turned and faced directly into it all, into all of the weather. There are a few things that I have noticed in the last four days: