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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand and melting like a snowflake. —Francis Bacon Sr. Do you make New Year’s resolutions? If so, I guess this is the time to come up with some. I’ve made plenty in my time. Even maybe kept …
“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 It’s the first Sunday of the first month of a New Year. 2022. All those twos. In a couple of hundred years people will be able to …
We were blessed to start another new year. 2020. Babies born in 2000 are young adults now. Anybody born in 1920, the beginning of the Roaring Twenties is looking at turning 100. My mom was born in 1920 and always said she wanted to live to be 100. She didn’t quite make it, but she had a good run toward …
“Approach the new year with resolve to find the opportunities hidden in each new day.” ~Michael Josephson Choose a word. That’s the advice that’s been going around on the internet and with self help blogs and books. Don’t worry about making long lists of New Year’s Resolutions. Go short. Very short. Distill your resolutions down to one word. One word …
Happy New Year, everybody! Can you believe we are heading into 2018? I remember what seems not long ago we were worrying about the change from 1999 to 2000 and how it was going to disrupt our world. But the night changed to day on that New Year’s and we kept living our lives. Our computer system didn’t blow up. …
January 1, 1967 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. Happy New Year!! 1967 showed up on a Sunday so that means we started out the New Year in church. You are in church every Sunday when you are a preacher’s kid! But I don’t mind. I like going to church. At least, most of the time. Church people get …
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 Pierce) I like thinking about a new year as an open book for us to write our own words on the blank pages of each day. Of course, …
“Dates that come around every year help us measure progress in our lives. One annual event, New Year’s Day, is a time of reflection and resolution.” (Joseph B. Wirthlin) Here we are at the time of year when resolutions figure in many people’s conversations. What are your New Year’s Resolutions? That’s a …
December 30, 1964 Jocie Brooke here reporting from Hollyhill, Kentucky. One more day and it will be 1965. Can you believe that? I remember having to get used to writing 1960 on my homework papers. And now I’ll be out of school before I have to write 1970. Unless I go to college. Dad says I should, but colleges cost …
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark. ~Michelangelo At this time of the year, everybody talks about making New Years’ resolutions. Here are some you might hear or even make yourself. Lose weight. Eat healthier foods. Exercise more. …