I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. Charles Dickens

     That sounds like a great resolution for the New year.  How about you?  What are your resolutions and goals? This is the time to look back at 2011 and ask ourselves just what we have done.
     John 'The Penguin' Bingham, a runner/writer, had a resolution for this past year to exercise at least 30 minutes every day, which he has kept.....admirable and doable.
     Resolving to make 2012 our healthiest year ever is a good goal. I hope to jog or run/walk 1000 miles in 2012, bettering my 640 miles in 2011.  Also,  I am doing plank-a-days, which I have done daily since September, and plan on continuing in 2012, but the New Year and the world deserve and need more from me, and us, than that.
     Albert Einstein said that "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."  The same old tired resolutions won't cut it anymore for our world. It is time for a change, a tabula rasa or clean slate, a chance to start from the beginning. Today is the day to begin to contemplate possibilities for the future, for "the future you see is the future you get." (Robert G. Allen).  Spend some time reflecting on what you have done in 2011, and what you can do, in 2012.  I plan to.

Cheers to the new year and another chance to get it right.
                                Oprah Winfrey


Happy Christmas (War is Over), by John Lennon

So this is Christmas
And what have you done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
And so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear ones
The old and the young

A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
For rich and the poor ones
The world is so wrong
And so happy Christmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let's stop all the fight
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
And so this is Christmas
And what have we done
Another year over
And a new one just begun
Ans so this is Christmas
I hope you have fun
The near and the dear one
The old and the young
A very merry Christmas
And a happy New Year
Let's hope it's a good one
Without any fear
War is over over
If you want it
War is over
Now...