Who here still stays up to watch the ball drop?
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Who here still stays up to watch the ball drop?
I stopped doing so some years ago. Eventually my family did too."Banning books in spite of the 1st amendment, but refusing to regulate guns in spite of "well regulated militia' being in the 2nd amendment makes no sense. Can't think of anyone ever shot by a book
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It's a political construct, New Year's Day.
We should all be celebrating the Winter Solstice, the only reality of this time of year.Gerard>
Albuquerque, NM
Next election, vote against EVERY Republican, for EVERY office, at EVERY level. Be patriotic, save the country.Comment
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^ And that makes two
We watch Jools Holland's music prog.
Who is performing on Jools Holland's Annual Hootenanny 2022?
Helping Jools Holland to ring in the New Year on the Hootenanny tonight will be:
- George Ezra
- Self Esteem
- Cat Burns
- Andy Fairweather Low
- Roland Gift
- Gabrielle
- The Real Thing
- Rachael and Vilray
- Ruby Turner
- Pipes and Drums of the 1st Battalion Scots Guards
It really is quite difficult to build an ugly wooden boat.
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The weakness of the web: Anyone can post anything on the web.Comment
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Why do we start a new year, with promises to improve?
Who began this tradition of never-ending pressure?
I say, the end of a year, should be filled with congratulation, for all we survived.
And I say a new year should start with promises to be kinder to ourselves, to understand better just how much we bear, as humans on this exhausting treadmill of life.
And if we are to promise more, let’s pledge to rest, before our bodies force us.
Let’s pledge to stop, and drink in life as it happens.
Let’s pledge to strip away a layer of perfection to reveal the flawed and wondrous humanity we truly are inside.
Why start another year, gifted to us on this earth, with demands on our already over-strained humanity.
When we could be learning to accept, that we were always supposed to be imperfect.
And that is where the beauty lives, actually.
And if we can only find that beauty, we would also find peace.
I wish you peace in 2023.
Everything else is all just a part of it.
Let it be so.
Donna Ashworth
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We did our celebration on the Solstice, as is right and proper. That said, "New Year's" is a fine excuse for a get-together so we're doing so with a bunch of friends for a potluck, a planning meeting for an upcoming event, possibly a game of darts and, for those willing to stay up late enough (not us) perhaps a glo-stick lighted archery shoot (weather permitting).Comment
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I’m going to watch the Seattle celebration on TV. They’re going to have one of those choreographed drone displays, which I find fascinating.“Come, come, my conservative friend, wipe the dew off your spectacles and see the world is moving" - Elizabeth Cady StantonComment
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I too am more mindful of the solstices. But I must admit, the shotguns and automatic weapons fire does wake me up in time to welcome in the new year.“Aren’t you supposed to be the gentlemen who lie for the good of their country?”
“That’s diplomats. We’re not gentlemen.”
“So you lie to save your hides.”
That’s politicians. Different game entirely.”Comment
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I wakeup when I hear the noise and come up on deck with a fire x er.Comment
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We celebrate, in solidarity with the good people of Iceland, so in bed by 10pm EST.
It is also our anniversary, so a real time to celebrate.Comment
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There is little point in trying to retire before about 12.30 as one of the houses a few hundred yards away lets off a firework extravaganza at midnight.Like Nick,I expect Jools Holland will be occupying the corner of the room,even if I have heard of very few of the acts.Comment
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