Happy 2019!

Happy New Year!

The chapter of our lives that was 2016 is finally closed.  We’ve lived through eight years of a presidency filled with utter failure, hollowness and shame and endured a president who behaved like a two-year-old throwing a tantrum in the middle of Walmart.

Let’s offer up our prayers for our new president that he may be guided to put our great nation back on the right track.

I wish to thank my co-blogger, Proof, who added some amazing and amusing content and stepped in to mind the place while I was away on vacation.  I’d also like to thank all our loyal readers who have visited here.  Many have become good friends.  I am eternally grateful to you.

To the friends I know and the friends I may come to know in the future may each day of the New Year be filled with contentment, opportunities, peace and abundance.

Wishing all of you a very Happy New Year!

Happy New Year Everyone!

New is the year, new are the hopes and the aspirations,
New is the resolution, new are the spirits and
Forever our warmest wishes are for you
To have a promising and fulfilling New Year.
Here are our wishes that the coming year is a glorious one
That rewards all your future endeavors with success.
Wishing you a heartfelt and prosperous
Happy New Year!

Best Wishes For A Happy, Healthy And Safe New Year

Ring Out the Old, Call 9-1-1 for the New

Original art by John Cox. More at John Cox Art

I’ll Take A Cup Of Kindness Yet For Auld Lang Syne

Much is made of the celebrations that ring in the New Year around the world, but nothing says Happy New Year like the ball drop in Times Square.

More than a million people brave the cold, the heavily concentrated security and the crowds to celebrate the end of the year and welcome what they hope will be a year that is better than the last one.

Without hope there is little meaning to life.  The very least any of us can do is figure out what we hope for and then live inside that hope. 

I want to wish you and your loved ones not just a smile but laughter; not just joy but happiness; not just wealth, but Heaven’s treasure; and not just tranquility, but God’s peace.

Happy New Year 2014!

My Best To Everyone. Happy New Year!

UPDATE @10:35PM:  Fiscal cliff deal reached.

Play A Loud Tune On A Paper Horn

Scatter confetti over the floor and sweep the old year out the door.

I am packing up the car and leaving to visit an out-of-town friend who is recuperating after back surgery. 

I won’t be posting anything while I’m away.  I’ll just be enjoying the company of my friend and recounting old times.

So, here’s wishing my readers more happiness than all my words can tell you.  May 2012 be a happy new year free from want and filled with blessings from God.


UPDATE:  January 1, 2012 at 5:22AM—I became quite ill just after posting my wish for everyone to enjoy their New Year's Eve celebrations and phoned my friend to say I was sick and thought it wiser to stay home and not spread my cooties.


I went to an urgent care facility, not an emergency room, because it was Saturday and no doctors in private practice operate on the weekend.  After having spent nearly three hours waiting to be seen, the doctor informed me that I have a sinus infection and bronchitis.


I was given a prescription for Levaquin (antibiotic) and Tussionex Suspension (cough medicine with codeine).  Over the past year, I've had two bouts of pneumonia; once in April and again in September.   Before you ask, yes, I've had my annual flu shot and because I have diabetes, I've also had my pneumonia vaccination.


I'm looking forward to feeling better and would really like it if I wouldn't get sick again any time soon.

We Made It

When I was much, much younger I avoided watching the retrospectives on television of the year just passed.  I remember not the year but the emotion such broadcasts evoked and I gave up watching them.  Being young I chose to attend New Year’s Eve parties where everyone waited with baited breath for the ball to drop in New York City—the iconic symbol of the year ending and the hope for the New Year beginning.

 

Everyone would join hands and unite in singing Auld Lang Syne, but do we really know its meaning?  Should those we knew and loved be forgotten and never thought of again?  Should old times be forgotten?  The lyrics say we shouldn’t.  We’ll remember those times and those people.  We’ll raise a toast to them.  We’ll keep them close and we’ll remember those who won’t be entering the New Year with us.

In the YouTube® video I created, which is embedded below, I chose pictures that captured the soul of a moment in time; happiness or sadness, celebration or sympathy.

From the horrifying earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan to the Tucson shootings that shocked our nation, from the tornadoes that cut a swath of destruction and death in Alabama and Missouri to the love story of Will and Kate, from the uprisings in Egypt, Tunisia and Libya to the shocking deaths at the Indiana State Fair, from the launch of NASA’s last space shuttle to the solemnity of the 10^th anniversary of September 11^th, it represents a reflection of the passing year.

Interspersed throughout the video are photos of notable persons who left their mark on the world.  I chose pictures that were flattering because that’s the way I wanted to remember them.  I’ve also included photos of jubilant military servicemen returning home from war.  We owe them so much.  And we should pause to remember those not coming home.

So, we’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet, for Auld Lang Syne.

Happy New Year everyone.  Happy New Year and thank you for your readership.

Linked at Pirate's Cove and Sentry Journal.  Many thanks to you both.