Entry #70

           Liz uses a great metaphor in the book comparing the new years celebration to a fishing net. "It's like we have roped it with our music, and now were are hauling it across the night sky like its a massive fishing net, brimming with our unknown destinies. And what heavy net it is, indeed, carrying as it does all the births, deaths, tragedienne wars, love, stories, inventions, transformations and calamities that are destined for all of us this coming year," P. 145 I love this metaphor because it is clear, but yet very interesting and honest. It makes it easy for me to understand what she is talking about and envision it. It's like she is pulling the new year every so much closer with her music, or the rope. Inside this large net are life's inevitabilities like death, and birth, which will most certainly carry on into the new year. Like everything that's going to unfold that year is just bundled up and they are pulling it closer with their traditions, and chanting and praying.