Success! I have advanced through the entire year, and I’m finally within reach of advancing to the next one. But it didn’t happen without effort; every day leaped out at me like a scowling samurai, and fought to trap me in its moments. I battled them down, three hundred and sixty five (so far) in succession, and moved on to the next. Most of those days, I have to say, never had much of a chance to hold me in their grasp. Only a dozen or so actually had a shot. And some of them I can’t even say why any more, what that special spark was that almost captured me. I do remember a couple of days, in early October, when the sky was bright and clear, when the temperatures were warm, the trees were in their first blush of autumn; these days embraced me and I thought I could happily stay within their confines forever. And the sun went down, and the sun came up, and those days were gone. I had escaped them; a miserable escape, perhaps, when the succeeding days were not so clear and bright. So here I stand, on the bridge to a new year, past all those ninjas; and all I have to show for it is my freedom.
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