Take a breath…
Don’t swallow the sun
The moon isn’t bright enough…
I promise I’ll be a better person this time next year.
If you’re reading this…
Congratulations, you’re alive.
If that’s not something to smile about, then I don’t know what is.
― Chad Sugg, from “Swallow the Sun” in Monsters Under Your Head
Notes:
- Poem: Thank you Julian in his post “Stop. And Focus” @ juliansummerhayes.com
- Photo: Henrik Purienneh (via ninipoppins)
- Post inspired by: “I am grateful for what I am & have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite — only a sense of existence.” ~ Henry David Thoreau, The Correspondence of Henry David Thoreau: Volume 2 1849-1856
- And inspired by this Haiku: “new year’s eve – / in the echo of fog horns / another voyage starts” ~ Keiko Izawa (via Lit Verve)
Live & Learn 
Smiling. :-). Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year
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Thanks!
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Happy New Year dear David, Thank you, Love, nia
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Thanks Nia. Happy New Year to you Nia.
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Happy New Year…
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Thanks Sawsan. And Happy New Year to you, Esam and the children.
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Love that quote. I shared it y’day on Twitter. Happy new year my friend. Make it count. Blessings – Julian
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All you Julian! Thank you again. Happy New Year to you, your family and all of those trips you plan to take in the new Van in the Road Ahead!
http://juliansummerhayes.com/the-road-up-ahead/
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Happy New Year, pal! Hope 2019 is a good one for you….
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Thanks Lori. Happy New Year to you too!
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Happy New Year!
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Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
To new beginnings … the perfect time of the year!! … ‘If you’re reading this … Congratulations, you’re alive. If that’s not something to smile about, then I don’t know what is.’
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Happy New Year, David!
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Thanks Debra. Happy New Year to you too!
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I can only and fully subscribe to that one!
Happy New Year (kind of the second time because I’m reading backwards now….). But better twice or 5 times than not at all! So, Happy, fullfilled, joy-filled, healthy, content, kind, patient, …… New Year, 365 times, to you and your family. K
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Yes. Yes. Backwards. That’s right. Happy New Year to you too Kiki.
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Kiki. Here’s another that moved me:
With what stillness at last
you appear in the valley
your first sunlight reaching down
to touch the tips of a few
high leaves that do not stir
as though they had not noticed
and did not know you at all
then the voice of a dove calls
from far away in itself
to the hush of the morning
so this is the sound of you
here and now whether or not
anyone hears it this is
where we have come with our age
our knowledge such as it is
and our hopes such as they are
invisible before us
untouched and still possible
~ W.S. Merwin, from “To The New Year” from Present Company (Port Townsend, Washington: Copper Canyon Press, 2005)
From http://thehammockpapers.blogspot.com
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Aaaaawh – breathing in and out – our hopes, invisible, untouched and still possible!!! YES
You do know that Hope dies last…. 😉 This is one of my life-long mantras – and it works, so far!
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Those Hammock papers are a treasure chest….. getting totally lost in it! Thanks – again and again….
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They are!
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and this is something to smile about )
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It is!
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Happiness & Health to you in 2019!
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With life the change we seek is possible. Without it all that is, is in the record books. Good or bad. Don’t waste the moment.
-Alan
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And that’s the punch line Alan…Happy New Year!
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Same to you my friend!
-Alan
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