Welcome 2017-Time to introspect and move forward-

Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.” ~Hal Borland

Yet on this day
“We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day”. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

our wish is well explained by Tennyson

“Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,

  The flying cloud, the frosty light:The year is dying in the night;

Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,

   Ring, happy bells, across the snow:

   The year is going, let him go;

Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Ring out the grief that saps the mind

   For those that here we see no more;

   Ring out the feud of rich and poor,

Ring in redress to all mankind.

Ring out a slowly dying cause,

   And ancient forms of party strife;

   Ring in the nobler modes of life,

With sweeter manners, purer laws.

Ring out the want, the care, the sin,

   The faithless coldness of the times;

   Ring out, ring out my mournful rhymes

But ring the fuller minstrel in.

Ring out false pride in place and blood, The civic slander and the spite;

   Ring in the love of truth and right,Ring in the common love of good.

Ring out old shapes of foul disease;Ring out the narrowing lust of gold;

   Ring out the thousand wars of old,Ring in the thousand years of peace.

Ring in the valiant man and free, The larger heart, the kindlier hand;

   Ring out the darkness of the land,”(Lord Tennyson)

So let us sing aloud