It’s a year when you’re around

We always care about the New Year, but it’s hard to define it. It may be the dumpling stuffing with pork and scallions mixed by my father, the bite of bacon sausage cooked by my grandmother, the strings of sugar gourds in the early winter, or the sentence in the crowd, “Good boy, eat, pack it or take it away.“ , is the warmth of the lights. A Happy New Year is a promise for the coming year and a long awaited harvest. But there is one thing that has never changed, and is deeply embedded in the marrow of all people, just because you are around is the year.