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Happy Chinese New Year, that is (known as Tet in Vietnam)! Today marks the beginning of the lunar year for the cultures of east Asia, this new year falling under the sign of the Rat--ergo, we have now entered the Year of the Rat (the first year of the twelve-year cycle). I dreamt of a rat this morning, which was very fitting as I reflected on it upon awakening.
So best wishes to everyone for the new year--the first Year of the Rat to fall within the twenty-first century.
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Scott, that's weird! My roommate told me yesterday that she woke up shouting "No!" during the night because she had dreamt of a child going over to touch a rat. :o
Anyway, Happy New Year to you, too! ;D
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Scott, that's weird! My roommate told me yesterday that she woke up shouting "No!" during the night because she had dreamt of a child going over to touch a rat. :o
Interesting! I was touching a rat in my dream, and not liking it at all (in fact, I was trying to get away from the thing, which I felt sorry for, but which repulsed me nonetheless).
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Happy New Year to you too!
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BetterMostians on the other side of the world will be starting their New Year's Eve celebrations soon. I love how 'global' we are!!
Wishing everyone a Happy New Year and all good things in 2011 and always!!
-Lynne
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Happy New Nearly Year to everyone!
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LOL Kelda - you're right! Nearly New Year.
I want to add a big Thank You to all of you who shared your lives with me in 2010. And going back to 2006. It's meant the world, and I am waiting with bated breath what 2011 may hold for us.
One lesson from last year - we do as good a job of propping each other up during the bad times as we do enjoying ourselves when times are better. That's as good a definition of family, of community, as I know.
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Yes.
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Lucky for us, our life gives us new starts, and the chance to change
all the bad things that we have dealt with in the past.
I am hoping that all of you have the best year of your life, and makes
your future wonderful. That is my sappy New Years Wish to all ............. ;D ;D
Seriously; I hope you all have a wonderful New Year !!!
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To you too Janice!
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Happy New Year!! EveryOne
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7 hours and counting! I´m all dressed and dollied up and am about to leave for a New Year´s Eve party at my sister´s house.
Thanks everyone for your friendships over this past year. It´s mean a lot to me.
My best memories from 2010 are tied up with travelling and with the people I´ve met while travelling.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
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7 hours and counting! I´m all dressed and dollied up and am about to leave for a New Year´s Eve party at my sister´s house.
Thanks everyone for your friendships over this past year. It´s mean a lot to me.
My best memories from 2010 are tied up with travelling and with the people I´ve met while travelling.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!
Have a wonderful and safe time! And back at you about the friendship biz. :-* :-*
P.S. I want pictures of 'All Dolled Up' you, so make sure a few make it online, please.
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Happy New Year to all my Brokie friends.
I hope you all have good plans for tonight, wherever you celebrate! I will celebrate with my family. My oldest daughter has a friend over, so we are two adults and four kids. We're outnumbered, eeeeek! We'll have cheese fondue and then it's board game night, yay!
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To all of my brokie kin...
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Happy New Year to all of you too! :-*
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Happy New Year, everyone!
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I am shaking my head in awe and wonder at our friend Chuck for spending about 12 hours so far today, sending so many of us sweet messages with pictures of ourselves that he took at various Brokie gatherings this year. Cutting, pasting, cropping -- good golly! What a sweet and awesome way to be reminded of how much love flows between us all, and how being together made 2010 so special.
THANK YOU, CHUCK!!!
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HAPPIEST OF NEW YEARS, BUDS!
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Happy new year to all my wonderful friends...
Meeting some of you in 2010 was the highlight of the year...
Have a fantastic 2011.....Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.
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To all my Brokie friends, a HAPPY NEW YEAR!
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I'm already more than 2 hours into 2011! So far, it's been a good year. ;D
I wish all my precious Brokie friends a wonderful new year, with only good things to come.
And hope to see you at various gatherings!
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Happy New Year, Brokies! I'm reposting my favorite version of Auld Lang Syne, by Daniel Cartier. Filmed on Cape Cod!
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I'm already more than 2 hours into 2011! So far, it's been a good year. ;D
Hard to believe! Until today, the last time this thread was posted in was nine years ago! :o
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Thanks for resurrecting it, just in time!!!
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Some pics from the "Roaring 20s" New Year's Eve party last night. Click the pics to make them bigger.
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This pic being used as decor, is the final scene from "The Shining", showing Jack Nicholson in the party photo, dated in the 1920s.
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Happy new year, Brokies!
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Looks like a very fun time, Chuck! Happy 2020 to you all.
I wanted to have a quiet New Year's after getting back from the mountains on Monday. I did see fireworks though. I was making a special dish of stuffed poblano peppers and accidentally touched my eye. A quick shower later, I finally got to eat them, but was not in the mood for any activities requiring seeing.
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So many holidays coming up for Brokies to celebrate! There's Yule next week (including the Brokie Longerdays celebration) and Christmas the week after. Hanukkah came early this year. Then, the solar New Year the week after that, when we'll sing the Robbie Burns song again (see below). Lastly the Lunar New Year begins with the first New Moon on February 10. It will be the Year of the Dragon!
Happy New Year, Brokies! I'm reposting my favorite version of Auld Lang Syne, by Daniel Cartier. Filmed on Cape Cod!
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At a building party last night, I told a neighbor about Longerdays. She proposed having a party on Friday, starting on the roof so we could see the sky -- fairly briefly, probably, because I think the fire pit is turned off for the season, although my phone says it will be in the 40s (thanks, global warming!). Then we'll go inside and have snacks and drinks. Excited to spread the tradition! Unsurprising that there are so many holidays this time of year associated with, or celebrated, with light.
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What? No Saturnalia?
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It's on a Monday this year. :laugh:
Christmas and, to a certain extent Easter and Halloween, are the only ancient holidays I observe. And ancient Roman culture is of less importance to me than the length and strength of sunlight. I like Longerdays because Chrissi and I made it up (or so I like to believe). Her latitude is even higher than mine. This winter has been easy so far -- most highs in the 40s, only a few dustings of snow -- but sadly there's no variability in daylight.
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Yeah, but Saturnalia involves lots of sex. ...
I hope we at least get some weather cold enough for me to wear my biker jacket. I tried it once last winter and then realized how much I had missed it. ;D
But it's a heavy jacket, and the lining isn't removable, so these days for me it requires a certain amount of briskness in the weather.
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Happy New Year, Brokies! I'm reposting my favorite version of Auld Lang Syne, by Daniel Cartier. Filmed on Cape Cod!
Here it is once again...Auld Lang Syne by Daniel Cartier. Paul's favorite version!
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It's discordant seeing all the Happy New Year wishes -- on Facebook, via texts from family and friends, etc. -- containing upbeat, optimistic messages about the coming year.
Sorry to be a Debbie Downer but I can't see how 2024 could be anything but a terrible year. Either Trump will go to prison or not, and he'll get elected or not, and any of those eventualities comes with potentially horrifying consequences. The country will be best off if he doesn't get elected and does go to prison. But his base will go nuts. And although they wouldn't prevail against the U.S. military, they can do a lot of damage along the way.
And of course if he does get elected he'll be commander in chief of the military. The potential consequences are too dire to contemplate. Don't get me wrong -- I would never want any of the other Republican candidates to win, either (though I'd take Mitt Romney in a second). But they're bad in just the usual Republican way of opposing Obamacare or whatever, not the "guy who worships brutal dictators" way. I mean, it's not entirely far-fetched to imagine a dictator president using AI to find people who have criticized him online.
The 1860s could end up looking like halcyon days when at least the two sides were geographically separated. I know that sounds like kind of crazy talk, but that's how weird this time is.
So have a cautiously happy new year, everyone!
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I agree with you about this new year of 2024.
And if Trump gets elected again, I have a feeling the country will have him for eight years, not just for four--and he'll probably make every effort to hang on past then.
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I agree with you about this new year of 2024.
And if Trump gets elected again, I have a feeling the country will have him for eight years, not just for four--and he'll probably make every effort to hang on past then.
He may last longer, or he may fix it so even if he doesn't hold office, someone very much like him will hold office. Or maybe not -- all Trump cares about is Trump. But his associates probably have higher ambitions.
Now I see apparently the Supreme Court is going to take up the question of whether Trump can be on the ballot. Well, that's certainly a body of upstanding trustworthy people so I'm sure everything will be fine.
I actually read a rather convincing essay on Slate arguing that the 14th Amendment explicitly excludes the president. Can't remember the reason, but I came away at least partly swayed, and it wasn't by a Trump supporter.