1. January 2018

 

New Year's Day. 

A fresh start. 

A new chapter in life waiting to be written. 

New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. 

Answers to be discovered 

and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery. 

Today carve out a quiet interlude for yourself in which to dream, pen in hand. 

Only dreams give birth to change.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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HAPPY  NEW  YEAR

BONNE  ANNEE

FROHES und  GESUNDES  NEUES  JAHR !

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"For last year's words belong to last year's language

And this year's words await another voice."

T.S. Eliot

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. Goran Persson
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/goran_persson_178599?src=t_newyears

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. Goran Persson
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/goran_persson_178599?src=t_newyears

Let our New Year's resolution be this: we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, in the finest sense of the word. Goran Persson
Read more at: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/goran_persson_178599?src=t_newyea

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a bientòt....

NEW YEAR GREETINGS

Wishing you all - far and near -

a year that is filled with the fragrance of roses,

 
 

....Illuminated with all the lights of the world...

...and be blessed with all the smiles on the planet.  

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May this New Year brings you a peace-filled life, 

warmth and togetherness in your families,

good health and much prosperity!

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For a good start to the year - 

I like to share with you a post,
written and published already a week ago by D. A. Wolf

a contemplative post which is never out of date:

"The World is a challenging place..."

 ".....To say that we need to care for our planet and care for each other 

seems trite, obvious, absurdly simplistic. 

Yet we seem to need constant reminding to look beyond immediate needs 

and preoccupations to a broader, longer-term universe of concerns… 

and to comport ourselves accordingly......"

".....To recognize that there are people who are troubled and who need us, 

to recognize that no person “gets there” alone — wherever “there” is — 

and then to act on that knowledge, is, to my mind, 

a reminder of the best of who we are as human beings......"

"....The world is a challenging place, 

and many of us believe we have a steady stream of battles to fight 

if we wish to protect the planet, much less our fundamental humanity. 

We cannot abandon the basics. 

We must savor our moments of joy, our sources of joy, 

our understanding that serving others — caring for each other, 

creating and sustaining community, 

reaching out to help any way we reasonably can — is a year-round undertaking, 

and equally, a year-round gift in the giving itself."

please read the full post

here:

Daily Plate Of Crazy 

HAPPY  NEW  YEAR!

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EIN FROHES UND GESUNDES NEUES JAHR!

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BONNE  ANNEE!

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Remark:

Some of you certainly know D.A.Wolf from the blog 'Daily Plate of Crazy'

D.A. was a member of our monthly By-Invitation-Only event.

An event created by our dear Marsha from   http://splenderosa.blogspot.fr/ 

Welcome to 2016

For the upcoming year 
I wish all my readers only the very best.

 What does 2016 hold for us? 

 What will the upcoming year bring?

 "The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you,
whose presence calls forth your best."
Epictetus 
Greek sage and Stoic philosopher, AD c. 55-135

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No matter what surprises fate may have in store for us, 
we definitely have an influence upon our health and our behaviour,
having enough sleep - ha-ha.

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Even if already seven days of the new year are over, 
"we" wish a healthy and successful 2016 to all of you !

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Happy New Year 2015!

Another year starts and with it, new hopes and aspirations 
– a faint desire that sprouts in every human heart 
that speaks of happiness, prosperity and goodness to come.



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The year gone-by might have shown grim state of affairs around the world
 with one tragedy after another, millions of refugees, 
tragedy and human failures never ceasing to seize the headlines.

But the excitement of a new year brings about an anticipation of a better future. 
This is one real moment that will touch the fabrics of human emotions 
that entails not only hope, but a reason to keep smiling and living life as it is.

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 "Let our New Year's resolution be this: 
we will be there for one another as fellow members of humanity, 
in the finest sense of the word."
--Goran Persson, former Prime Minister of Sweden

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And now I welcome the new year
with
Johann Strauss's Polka "Im Krapfenwaldl"

May 2015 greet you with days as fragrant as roses, 

 


as colorful as rainbow,

 


as bright as sunshine and as happy and cheerful as a lark.

 And may this year will give you the opportunity to realise your dreams, 
rediscover your strengths, muster your willpower 
and rejoice the simple pleasures that life would bring your way.

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HAPPY  NEW  YEAR  2015!
BONNE  ANNEE
FROHES  NEUES  JAHR !

HAPPY NEW YEAR !

Das NEUJAHRSKONZERT

der Wiener Philharmoniker

 Foyer

The New Year Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic

is a concert of classical music that takes place

each year in the morning of January 1 in Vienna, Austria. 

It is in terms of international coverage 

the largest classical music event in the world

and is broadcast on television and radio to over 70 countries worldwide.

The music always includes pieces from the Johann Strauss family

with occasional additional music from other mostly Austrian composers.

There are traditionally about a dozen compositions played,

with a pause at the half and encores at the end.

Loorin Mazel, 1996

The music include waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and marches.

Of the encores, the first is often a fast polka.

The second is Johann Strauss II's waltz The Blue Danube,

whose introduction is interrupted by applause of recognition

and a New Year greeting from the musicians to the audience.

Ricardo Muti, 1997

This year the Austrian born conductor Franz Welser-Moest,

following in the footsteps of Clemens Krauss, Josef Krips,

Willi Boskovsky, Herbert von Karajan and Nikolaus Harnoncourt,

becomes the sixth Austrian conductor to stand at the helm

of the Vienna Philharmonic on the first day of the New Year.

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As far as I can think back - each New Year's Day I've listen to this concert.

My favorite Conductor was the Austrian Willy Boskovsky, 1955 - 1979

He had this great talent to convey the concert 

that I felt Johann Strauss himself is conducting.  

Willi Boskovsky, 1964

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The last piece is Johann Strauss I's  Radetzky March,

during which the audience claps along  under the conductor's wry direction.

Here with Zubin Mehta in 1998

PROSIT  NEUJAHR !

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The complete duration of the event is around two and a half hours.

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In view of the tradition of the New Year's Concerts, 

which began during the Second World War,

the Vienna Philharmonic performs the concert even today

not only as a presentation of Viennese musical culture at the 

highest level, but also to send the world a New Year's greeting

in the spirit of

Hope, Friendship and Peace

                                                                                                                     

HAPPY  NEW  YEAR

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EIN FROHES UND GESUNDES NEUES JAHR

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BONNE  ANNEE

Karin