Regina Spektor – My Dear Acquaintance (A Happy New Year) My dear acquaintance, it’s so good to know you For strength of your hand That is loving and giving And a happy new year With love overflowing With joy in our hearts For the blessed new year Raise your glass and we’ll have a cheer For us all who are gathered here And a happy new year to all that is living To all that is gentle, kind, and forgiving…
Traditionally, this is time to relinquish the hold of the past year and begin to dream the new year. Good timing. There are all sorts of performative enactments to help you to let go of all the things that you want to discard, and envision – or open yourself to a vision – of how you want the new year to be. It will be very dark tonight, a good transition point. New projects and new thoughts emerge from darkness….
Take this quiz at QuizGalaxy.com My score on The Literary Style Test: Franz Kafka(Your Literary Style Is 16% Realistic, 83% Philosophical, and 66% Psychological!) Franz Kafka’s literary style is so distinct that an adjective has been coined from his name to describe similar styles. That adjective is “kafkaesque”. Your own writing, obviously, is kafkaesque. Kafka wrote very strange, horrifying stories. His most famous novella involves the transformation of a man into a giant insect. His works are not only fantastic…