ENJOY: DON'T DESTROY IN 2010

The last few years of my teaching career, our school decided to come up with a theme or a motto for the school year. A sort of mission statement that students were supposed to get geeked about. You know, pumped up, excited about, take to heart.

Now if you've ever been around high school students much, you know that there ain't no motto they're going to get all jazzed about. "Sex, drugs, and rock and roll," might be the closest mantra to at least some of MTV's finest back in the day.

Some of the ones I remember were "Believe it; Achieve It--Make This Year Count." "Don't Settle for Less; Be the Best." And "Be Number One." In fact the last one seemed to be incorporated in all the others in later themes.

But if given the task of sloganning, theming, or mottoing for our country, I guess one could do worse than "Enjoy: Don't destroy."

There's so much to enjoy in our land. And so many who seem heck-bent on doing destruction to the land and its people. Some of them reside in our nation's Capital. I think I'll leave it at that on the first day of a new year. On the first day of a new decade.

Enjoy 2010 all you can, all the time. If you have the gall, try also to be Number One.