Happy New Year!!
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Happy New Year!
I'm not usually retired before 1 am, so I'll be up to see the New Year in. It's been a lovely day, really. Time with Cielo, sewing, piano. And we're in a mild streak weather-wise, high of 44, low of 34 tonight. Very lovely.
Here is a poem for this evening (and probably many days to come!)....
The Peace of Wild Things
by Wendell BerryWhen despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. -
Happy New Year!
I'm not usually retired before 1 am, so I'll be up to see the New Year in. It's been a lovely day, really. Time with Cielo, sewing, piano. And we're in a mild streak weather-wise, high of 44, low of 34 tonight. Very lovely.
Here is a poem for this evening (and probably many days to come!)....
The Peace of Wild Things
by Wendell BerryWhen despair for the world grows in me
and I wake in the night at the least sound
in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
I go and lie down where the wood drake
rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
I come into the peace of wild things
who do not tax their lives with forethought
of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
And I feel above me the day-blind stars
waiting with their light. For a time
I rest in the grace of the world, and am free. -
Entertaining some 20 people tonight.
And two dogs.
Chaos!
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Entertaining some 20 people tonight.
And two dogs.
Chaos!
@Steve-Miller said in Happy New Year!!:
Entertaining some 20 people tonight.
Already?! Aren't you "new" in that neighborhood?!
This is amazing!
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No plans. Maybe some scotch just before we turn in. Will we make it to the ball drop? Who knows!
(Lived in NY City for 40 years but have never done the NYE Times Square thing. Actually, locals try to avoid Times Square all year long.)
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Saw Queer starring Daniel Craig this afternoon. Expected several sex explicit
scenes after reading the reviews.
Nope. I was surprising seeing a popular movie star doing those non-explicit scenes.
Drugs, including alcohol were constant, not sex. Burroughs wrote Junkie, not a sex book.
The movie was well done, not surprised the reviews were positive. Daniel Craig is due the recognition he is getting for his acting. tv
We stopped at a Flower Child for a light dinner and we are home watching the celebrations on TV. May stay until 10; there are clothes in the drier. -
@Steve-Miller said in Happy New Year!!:
Entertaining some 20 people tonight.
Already?! Aren't you "new" in that neighborhood?!
This is amazing!
It’s my whole family + Kim’s in-laws and family + Greg’s MIL and one of the kid’s friends from school.
We played “Punchbowl”, now watching NY Rocking Eve upstairs and football downstairs.
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No plans. Maybe some scotch just before we turn in. Will we make it to the ball drop? Who knows!
(Lived in NY City for 40 years but have never done the NYE Times Square thing. Actually, locals try to avoid Times Square all year long.)
@RealPlayer We did the ball drop one year; we were at a theater seeing Smokey Robinson. They sent us outside for the ball drop, then we all came back for the end of the show! Back in the 80’s. We lived in Queens at the time.
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Happy New Year from Las Vegas.
https://bsky.app/profile/dhfeldman.bsky.social/post/3leo5iwjklk2m
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Another firework this morning in front of the Trump Hotel in Vegas this morning.
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Happy new year!
We went to bed before 11pm and I was up around 5:30 as usual
My mother is staying with us. Yesterday we had “new year’s eve noodles.” Then this morning, we watched the Japanese new year’s song contest (which is a 4 hour show!) while alternating between putting away the Christmas tree ornaments and doing Japanese games. It’s been a lovely day so far. Dinner will be ravioli with meatballs.
And just a little bit ago, the sun came out.
It’s been a lovely day.
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@RealPlayer We did the ball drop one year; we were at a theater seeing Smokey Robinson. They sent us outside for the ball drop, then we all came back for the end of the show! Back in the 80’s. We lived in Queens at the time.
@AdagioM I didn't know you ever lived in Queens!
I went to see the ball drop one year. We got there at 10:30 pm and got no closer than the mid-50s on 7th Avenue, no way we could see the ball and we were herded into the block like cattle and you couldn't leave because you wouldn't be allowed back in. It was 14 degrees F, we were freezing and after half an hour of realizing just how awful the experience was, went home and watched it on TV!
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@AdagioM I didn't know you ever lived in Queens!
I went to see the ball drop one year. We got there at 10:30 pm and got no closer than the mid-50s on 7th Avenue, no way we could see the ball and we were herded into the block like cattle and you couldn't leave because you wouldn't be allowed back in. It was 14 degrees F, we were freezing and after half an hour of realizing just how awful the experience was, went home and watched it on TV!
@Bernard yikes, that sounds awful! I never understood the appeal of attending a public event like that, where people are packed in like sardines, and had I ever attempted to attend, I would have done what you did — go home!
BTW Mr SK always says he can never understand the appeal of a ball drop. For one thing, according to him, it seems like a “bad luck” way to start the new year, with a large object falling down, rather than something that goes up.
