Happy New Year 2014

Sunset or sunrise? You choose.

Another spell of 365 days has passed. The New Year promises much, is replete with potential. Will we harvest the fruits of our talent and labour? Or will we fritter away the next year, as we might have done the last? That's the beauty of a New Year: it gives us hope and choice. Whether we select 'same old, same old' or opt for 'everything changes' or some road between is entirely up to us.

I prefer the New Year to Christmas. Xmas is all about children (bless their little hearts!) and the commercialisation of ritual giving. But New Year marks a new opportunity, a point of change, a fulcrum for potential.

New Year Resolutions will proliferate; but not from me. I make only one resolution: to make no resolutions.

But I have intentions, dreams, plans, hopes. There will be more books from my pounded keyboard, posts on this blog, tweets via that truncated network, pins to the boards of interest, status updates on the book of my face, additions to the google plus, comments on the output of others. I will read more and record that activity on Goodreads, reviewing those volumes that please me. But, more than anything else, this new season of days will find me writing, writing writing.

I wish all of you all that you wish for yourselves. May 2014 be THE year for all of us!

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Stuart's Daily Word Spot: Altogether or all together:

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Altogether: noun - the whole together, total, everything; nude, naked. Adverb – entirely, totally, in every respect.

All together; in one place or grouped; all at the same time.

‘Persephone stepped from the shower, dried herself and wandered into the sitting room in the altogether, only to discover her gathered friends had arranged a surprise party for her birthday.’

‘It is altogether likely that we humans are not the only life form inhabiting the universe.’

‘When we go to the beach, we should go all together.’

Stuart's Daily Word Spot: Xebec

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Xebec: noun - small three-masted boat with lateen (triangular) or, sometimes, square sails, once much used in the Mediterranean.

‘Watching the sun, as it set over the island of Rhodes, Veronica was surprised to see a xebec enter the harbour, sailing in as if from some ancient forgotten myth.’ 

8 May 1886 - Coca-Cola went on sale at Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all my Readers

Image via WikipediaI'd just like to take this opportunity to wish a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all my Readers. And, for those of you who don't subscribe to the Christian rites, Happy Yuletide - a pagan ceremony far more ancient than the current one it preceded.