...Area Development Partnership President Angie Godwin wants to step back and smell the roses a bit more.
"My resolution is to celebrate one day at a time," Godwin said. "Everything gets so busy and so hectic when we are running 50 different directions. By the time we have a success on a project, we don't take time to celebrate before we're right on to the next project."
And she wants to look for the good in what may appear bad on the surface.
"Even if we have challenges, I want to celebrate some of the opportunities that might open up to us," Godwin said....
...University of Southern Mississippi President Shelby Thames is looking ahead to big changes in 2007, when he plans to resign his post and return to research - and to enjoy some much anticipated leisure time.
"I resolve that I will renovate and upgrade the new house just the way (my wife) Shirley wants, and that the new closet will indeed be large enough," Thames said in an e-mail. "And I resolve that I will spend more of my time with my family."...
As always, the Dome Gnome's choice of words yields excellent Freudian Insight as to the depth of his denial. Obviously, what I assume is the HA's regurgitation of his use of "resign" in "resign his post" for a New Years comment, instead of "finish his term" shows a denial that he is being booted out. He wishes to have everyone think that he is the one wanting to go having completed everything he set out to do.