Dick Clark celebrated his 40th New Year's Rockin' Eve with us in 2011. He started the program to give young people an alternative to Guy Lombardo and his orchestra playing Auld Lang Syne. Both programs have been traditions in my family at one time or another. Both men will forever be linked to New Year's Eve. It isn't a bad holiday to have connected to your name.
The new year means new opportunities. We welcome 2012 and all of its many chances to discover new places and meet new people and gain new knowledge. We can laugh harder and love more deeply and embrace more often and think outside the lines and color outside the lines and walk on the grass instead of the sidewalks.
We can wash the colors with the whites and eat dessert first and eat dessert second and eat dessert last. Then we can order dessert guilt-free. We can yell louder at sports events and paint our faces in the team colors and sing along loudly at concerts and play games at the arcade.
The new calendar represents new births and new relationships and new chapters and undiscovered territories. We do not know what to expect but we anticipate its arrival with enthusiasm and arms wide open.
And we bid adieu to 2011 with the understanding that we are better people for having known those we lost in the past year. We hold in high regard those loving influences who will remain forever in our hearts.
Loved ones join us as we are introduced to this new year. Our inner circle of friends and family who enriched 2011 will be by our sides in 2012. Their presence continues to light our paths and their being with us makes the journey richer.
What will the new year bring? I can hardly wait to find out. Happy New Year !!
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