The Sun Rises On A New Year

"Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever."

Mark Twain


"Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."

Hal Borland