Birth of a New Year
January 1, 2011
It's New Year's Day and I'm guessing not many people are going to be feeling up to reading much, so I'll make this brief. I want to wish all my readers and supporters a very Happy New Year. Without you The Journal would have not survived these past three years and I am forever grateful. Last year was rough; I'm glad it is now in the history books. But, the first of January brings hope and new opportunities for better days. The Quaker poet Bernard Barton called New Year's Day the "birthday for all mankind; a very fitting label for John T. McCutcheon's January 1, 1911 Chicago Tribune editorial cartoon. (I do take exception to McCutcheon saying the New Year is a boy, but who am I to criticize the master?) Barton's poem, "A New Year's Eve," is not a particularly cheerful poem, so I'll leave you this New Year's Day with the following, as you make that list of resolutions...
"New Year's Day: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual." - Mark Twain
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4 comments:
Happy new year to you also, exceptional quote from the master of quotes, don't remember seeing that one before! :)
Happy New Year to you too - and thanks for the Mark Twain quote.
Happy New Year. It's a great way to look at New Year and the future. My resolutions have always been goals.
You're right in assuming that people won't be up to reading blogs much during the holidays. I mean, I only started to read again today.
Happy New Year to you too and I wish you more power!
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