“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been” ― Rainer Maria Rilke

     Here's to a good 2020 for us all!  Look out, 2020, here we come.


     Dan Fogelberg, Same Old Lang Syne
We drank a toast to innocence
We drank a toast to time
Reliving, in our eloquence
Another "Auld Lang Syne"
  



(update, 1561.4 miles run out of 2019 mile goal, + 566.4 miles walked, elevation gain 37, 297')  
Run streak days 1944.          

Mysterious swarms of giant drones have started to appear in the Colorado and Nebraska night sky, and nobody knows where they're coming from

https://www.businessinsider.com/giant-drone-swarm-mystery-in-colorado-nebraska-skies-2019-12?fbclid=IwAR3fi62M5Ad1N-5bLHAkSHjSvcS9Rbc1UIO48hFdWpMQUgxdZL56IJXEzcQ

People ask me what I'm doing tomorrow, I answer "Come on, I don't have 2020 vision", Dad Jokes

Wise words

                                                                     Wild Woman Sisterhood

"You are a future of multifarious possibility."

     I need to simplify my life and give away excess stuff, but books are hard.This must be why.

I'm so sorry.......(LOL)

I am the master of my fate:
  I am the captain of my soul.
  
From:                

Invictus

William Ernest Henley - 1849-1903

“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.” ― J.M. Barrie

     I hope you all had an awesome holiday season thus far.  I'm back home.  It is snowing and I will have to shovel later.  The mail brought me a jury duty notification.  But I got Charleigh-dog from the kennel and home again without sliding into a ditch, so all is good. And Christmas was awesome.  I hope yours was, too.

Celebrate this winter solstice! The days will soon be getting longer.

     This seems to fit the times in which we live.

New thought for the holidays.....

What's the best that can happen?

Happy Holidays.

A big thank you to everyone who made me smile this year. 

Fascinating nature fact of the day.....

     On yesterday's walk we saw masses of ducks continuously paddling in tight rings. There were multiple circles operating at once. Some birders happened to be nearby doing a bird count.  It turns out these ducks are northern shovelers. It is thought that they swim in tight circles to set up a rotation, an agitation or vortex, that brings up food to the surface.....algae, crawfish, slugs, and whatever else ducks eat. We could learn a lot from their cooperation.

I saw this today and felt the need to share.

                         

                                                                                        The Other 98%

     It's getting to be that time of year to start planning for 2020.  What are you contemplating? I'm not sure yet....LOL. I need to try new things, though.

Health-related info I found today and want to share:

300 MEDICAL STUDENTS IN DETROIT COMPLETE THE FIRST MANDATED PLANT-BASED NUTRITION PROGRAM IN THE US

https://vegnews.com/2019/12/300-medical-students-in-detroit-complete-the-first-mandated-plant-based-nutrition-program-in-the-us?fbclid=IwAR1FZwcjiwKEsiDSXZl83ZdPtZBXwDz9s0qSXxCiZHvrFR8PdG_95A5olws

The Benefits of Early Time Restricted Eating

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cAhfZa1Rac

At long last doctors are starting to receive some nutritional education.
Have a healthy holiday.

This made me laugh and it is so true.

Dare to live a great story...

“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.” ― Voltaire

     I read this quote today.  Is this where the label "snowflake" originates?  I had to do a little research.

In Missouri in the early 1860s, a 'snowflake' was a person who was opposed to the abolition of slavery—the implication of the name being that such people valued white people over black people. This use seems not to have endured.

From Chuck Palaniuk's book "Fight Club":
In the 1999 movie adaptation the lines go like this:
“Listen up, maggots. You are not special. You are not the beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else. We are the all-singing, all-dancing crap of the world. We are all part of the same compost heap."

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-less-lovely-side-of-snowflake

Now:
Snowflake: The pejorative sense of "an overly sensitive person" 

I prefer:
'Please keep calling me a snowflake. I like being different than the next person. Every snowflake is unique. They all come from the same place, but are able to establish their own identities, free and clear of any other snowflake. Snowflakes make this world beautiful.”
― Ed Krassenstein

I love this suggestion.

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

(the above quote is by Franklin D. Roosevelt)

When you have more than you need, build a bigger table--not a higher fence.

Such a striking reminder.

“How did it get so late so soon? It's night before it's afternoon. December is here before it's June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?” ― Dr. Seuss