{"id":677,"date":"2017-12-31T15:55:43","date_gmt":"2017-12-31T04:55:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/annerouen.com\/blogspot\/?p=677"},"modified":"2017-12-31T15:55:43","modified_gmt":"2017-12-31T04:55:43","slug":"the-more-things-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annerouen.com\/blogspot\/the-more-things-change\/","title":{"rendered":"The More Things Change …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Old Postcard – WWI Era<\/p><\/div>\n

Another year has just sped by, with its fair share of joy, sadness and inspiration, leaving me little time to catch my breath. It hardly seems possible that, a whole twelve months later, I am wondering exactly the same thing about the year that has just gone. Where? And how quickly!<\/p>\n

One hundred years ago, my grandfather was preparing to face the worst year of his life on the Western Front, not believing that he would survive; little knowing that it was to end in an Allied victory.<\/p>\n

Now, a century later, with my father approaching his 90th<\/sup> birthday, the world has developed amazingly. Although, some would say, not for the better.<\/p>\n

Looking, with misgiving, at the attitudes of our leaders; tensions simmering in odd little corners of the globe, with threats and posturing uncannily similar to those of pre-WWI, I realize there is one constant in our ever-changing world \u2013 human nature.<\/p>\n

The old adage: The more things change, the more they stay the same, is just as apt now as it ever was.<\/p>\n

I might have said that my New Year’s resolution was to have no resolutions, but I do have two. One is to publish Book IV, Guardian Angel, which will complete my Master of Illusion series. And the second is to finish the two novels I have been working on all year. The first will be accomplished very soon. For the second, I am taking inspiration as it comes. (Refer to adage, as above.)<\/p>\n

Today, as we stand on the brink of the unknown; a bright, untrammeled new year waiting to be ushered in; I take this opportunity to wish all my readers a safe, happy, exciting and inspirational 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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