New Years Eve Wishes

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This is the one night each year when we look back, with relief, with regret, with fondness for the days that lay behind us.  We remember the failures and the triumphs of the past year and on this same night we look forward knowing a new year, fresh and untouched lays before us.  A new year in which we can make right things that were wrong in the last.  A new year in which we can become more of who we have always hoped to be.  A new year in which all things are possible. 

Tonight is a night that lingers on the very edges of past and future.  A day of shadows and dreams and memories.  This is the one night of any year when all things are possible.  When we are not simply bound by the things that are.  This is the one night that dreaming is permitted, that dreaming is demanded and where hope reigns supreme.  It is the one night where we can leave behind all the baggage and  fears and regrets of the past three hundred and sixty five days.  The one day in which we can reinvent ourselves.  Tonight is the night we get to start fresh.  We get to enter a new year and embrace the hope of what can be.

You may spend this night in the company of friends, laughing, dancing, drinking.  You may spend it alone in quiet contemplation, however you choose to leave the old year and enter into the new, you will do it with hope.  That is what I wish for all of you.  That you can leave behind the past, take from it the lessons it was supposed to teach and step boldly into a new year with hope and joy.

2012 will be your year.  I plan to make it mine.