Was it Lao Tsu or a Taino cacique who said:
• Be content with what you have...rejoice in the way things are.
When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.

• Good resolutions are simply checks that folks draw on a bank where they have no account.
--Oscar Wilde

• An (Un-Serious) New Year Prayer for the Elderly
God, grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked anyway,
The good fortune to run into the ones that I do,
And the eyesight to tell the difference.

• Auld Lang Syne was partially written by Robert Burns in the 1700's, it was first published in 1796 after Burns' death. Early variations of the song were sung prior to 1700 and inspired Burns to produce the modern rendition. An old Scotch tune, 'Auld Lang Syne' literally means 'old long ago', or simply, 'the good old days'.

(For Mums & Dads & the Gathering, who sang so lustily...tearfully remembering & "bringin' in di yeer")

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
for auld lang syne,
we'll take a cup of kindness yet,
for auld lang syne.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
And here's a hand, my trusty friend
And gie's a hand o' thine
We'll tak'A cup o' kindness yet
For auld lang syne.

Old Wharf's Yogini (Sharon McConnell-Feanny): Shakti Vision Board Workshop
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