Happy 2005!!

Here’s wishing you all, a very happy 2005!!

Take with you the best of what 2004 gave you and leave behind what 2004 tried to spoil.

For those who reflect on the past year and see failures, here are a few lines by Thomas Hood to welcome the new year by,

And ye, who have met with Adversity’s blast,
And been bow’d to the earth by its fury;
To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass’d
Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury -
Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime,
The regrets of remembrance to cozen,
And having obtained a New Trial of Time,
Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.