A Few More Hours to FREEDOM

FREEDOM from 2007, that is. My, what a strange rabbit hole it's been. Falling and falling and...

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Well, I can't seem to find the right words, so I'll borrow my dear friend Don's. He's a cat breeder, former dancer, and one-time photographer of all the ballet greats. I purchased a picture of my beloved Gelsey from him, but really? We bonded over cats. He's now an ambassador to Cat Fancy Magazine since he shows 2 of his little fuzzers and they've won some ribbons!

Here's his words of wisdom.

New Year’s Greeting To all of you:
I hope each of you had a grand holiday season in 2007. And I sincerely hope that the past year was filled with some joy, some laughter, and some memorable milestones in your lives. But how about this New Year, 2008? I don't intend to make any real resolutions.
What I do intend to do is try to keep a positive attitude and take the good and the bad as it comes, making the best of it if it is bad and giving thanks for it if it is good. One of the things I am thankful for is good friends, people like you, who have enriched my life by just being who you are.

My take on the new year is: Happiness is too many things these days for anyone to wish it on anyone else lightly; and therefore I cautiously bid you to pursue it. What I wish for you is fulfillment, contentment, satisfaction with yourself, and respect for yourself and others. I wish for you health in so far as it is possible forany of us at this point in our lives. And I wish that we can all get together sometime during 2008 if just to say hello to each other one more time.

Here are some quotes, cynical and sometimes funny:

Anonymous --- Many people look forward to the New Year for a new start on
old habits.

Mark Twain --- New Year’s is a harmless annual institution, of no particular
use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, friendly calls,
and humbug resolutions. Twain also said --- New Year’s Day now is the accepted time to make your
regular annual resolutions. Next week you can begin paving the road to hell
with them as usual.

Bill Vaughan --- Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year’s
Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. Old age is when you don't even
bother to.

Eric Zorn --- Making resolutions is a cleansing ritual of self assessment
and repentance that demands personal honesty and, ultimately, reinforces
humility. Breaking them is part of the cycle.

Oprah Winfrey --- Cheers to a New Year and another chance for us to get it
right.

Better words have never been spoken. Thanks Don! And to the 15 or so readers of this very silly blog. The calendars have already been changed. Woo hoo!!!

See ya tomor....see ya in '08!