I Am Wondering About... 3 New Year's Notes of Interest

                                          2012

  1. Interesting things that people have done on New's Years Day...
  
      Taken a hike
      Rekindled a friendship or started a new one
      Had a New's Year brunch
      Cut up old clothes and made a rug from them
      Googled most interesting searches
      (this year it is at Google Zeitgeist 2011)
      Started a retirement fund.




  2. Interesting foods that people eat on New's Years Day
       
      Grapes - in Spain it is tradition to eat 12 grapes at midnight for good luck
      Cooked greens -  USA  the more eaten the more fortune you will have in the new year 
      Legumes - USA  especially black-eyed or cowpeas~  in the South the dish is called Hoppin' John
      Pork - USA  for wealth and prosperity in the new year ~pigs symbolize progress
      Fish - USA   for long life in this year and the years to come
      Cakes - in some cultures a trinket or coin is hiden in the cake and the finder receives good luck
  
 3.  Interesting quotes and poems for New Year's.

          Ring out the old, ring in the new,
           Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
           The year is going, let him go;
           Ring out the false, ring in the true.
           ~Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1850

          

           Glory to God in highest heaven,
           Who unto man His Son hath given;
           While angels sing with tender mirth,
           A glad new year to all the earth.
           ~Martin Luther

         
         

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past. ~Henry Ward Beecher

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. ~Ellen Goodman

“Another fresh new year is here . . . Another year to live! To banish worry, doubt, and fear, To love and laugh and give! This bright new year is given me To live each day with zest . . . To daily grow and try to be My highest and my best! I have the opportunity Once more to right some wrongs, To pray for peace, to plant a tree, And sing more joyful songs!”

William Arthur Ward quotes (American dedicated scholar, author, editor, pastor and teacher)

~ May your 2012 be all that you dream it to be.            Deborah

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