on the lunar new year, 2024 – the year of the dragon
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may the new year shower you with luck and love
and
may it be as bright as all the lanterns that light up the sky.
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art credit: etsy.com
Feb9
Category Archives: new year
Jan1
welcome.
welcome 2024, c’mon in!
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“and now we welcome the new year. full of things that have never been.”
-rainer maria rilke
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image credit: corrine la tour vintage cards, paris
Dec31
but now what?
good riddance, but now what?
come, children, gather round my knee;
something is about to be.
tonight’s december thirty-first,
something is about to burst.
the clock is crouching, dark and small,
like a time bomb in the hall.
hark! it’s midnight, children dear.
duck! here comes another year.
-ogden nash.
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art credit: ed gorey, the house
Jan22
year of the rabbit.
happy lunar new year
in the year of the rabbit
to all who celebrate
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“leonardo fibonacci, the great 13th century italian mathematician (1175-1250)
created the ‘fibonacci sequence’ to explain behavior in nature mathematically.
history has it that the first question he posed
was how many rabbits would be created in one year starting with one pair.”
-rick santelli
Jan1
on the new year.
welcome to 2023
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“just a reminder that you don’t have to make resolutions, or huge decisions, or big proclamations.
you can just set some sweet intentions and take each day as it comes.”
-victoria erickson
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vintage illustration: moon and stars tree
Dec31
too much i-scream?
“the present is the ever-moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. in that lies hope.”
-frank lloyd wright
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wishing you a happy new year, when midnight arrives in your part of the world
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art credit: dan reynolds
Jan1
january 1.
“i love beginnings. if i were in charge of calendars, every day would be january 1.”
-jerry spinelli
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Painting by – Claude Monet | Snow Scene at Argenteuil, 1875
Dec31
next year.
“for last year’s words belong to last year’s language,
and next year’s words await another voice.”
-t.s. eliot
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art credit: from children’s book, ‘the whisper’ written and illustrated by pamela zagarenski
Feb12
ox.
“one ox, two oxen. one fox, two foxen.”
jenny lawson
Happy Chinese New Year in the year of the Ox- 2021!
Celebrated at the second new moon following the Winter Solstice,
Chinese New Year is also known as the Lunar New Year or Spring Festival.
According to the Chinese Lunar Calendar,
this festival marks the end of winter and the beginning of a long-awaited spring!
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image credit: fairycake fair, tokyo station, japantimes.com
Jan1
hope smiles.
sign of new beginnings
wonderful surprises ahead
my ever-struggling orchid
suddenly burst into bloom
just in time
to welcome in the new year.
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“hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come whispering – it will be happier”
-alfred lord tennyson
I didn't have my glasses on.... 