A Whole New Year!
I like New Years. I often start a whole New Year on a Tuesday or a Friday, or any day when I feel the need. A whole New Week is fab, too. A whole New Month is full of promise. But a Whole New Year …
I love a Whole New Year. A Whole New Beginning.
And I (and PupperJack — natch) wish you all a wonderful New Year — we wish you a happy and healthy and smiley 2023.
‘The Land of Beginning Again’ by Louisa Fletcher Tarkington (1878–1957)
I wish there were some wonderful place
Called the Land of Beginning Again,
Where all our mistakes and all our heartaches,
And all our poor, selfish griefs
Could be dropped, like a shabby old coat, at the door,
And never put on again.
I wish we could come on it all unaware,
Like the hunter who finds a lost trail;
And I wish that the one whom our blindness had done
The greatest injustice of all
Could be at the gate like the old friend that waits
For the comrade he’s gladdest to hail.
We would find the things we intended to do,
But forgot and remembered too late —…
