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Happy 2020 to the Gerts — a new decade as well — wishing everyone here health, and abundance of all good things!
You must have glimpsed my comment about the debate about when the new decade starts in a very small window I took it down because my meaning was unclear. What I was trying to say was ‘ Does the new decade start with in 2020 or 2021 But you knew that anyway
And the answer may be: both. One website helpfully advises that both are correct. https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/decade.html. So we intend to celebrate and keep it up. The forecast for New Year’s Eve is rain — not sure what that will do to the fireworks, but we’ll figure something out.
Wishing you all the very best for 2020. Lots of bookish treats, I hope.
Thank you Jacqui I have a mounting pile We look forward to your reviews in the new yesr
Wishing you a great 2020. Buon anno! 🍸🍸🍸
Grazie e buon anno 🍷
I saw a headline to that effect. The same debate occurred twenty years ago at the start of the new century — guess no-one agreed. We need something to distract us from everything else.
Happy New Year to both Gerts. I guess your next post will be on January 1st, 2020. So it’s farewell to the old and welcome to the new.
Leslie
Thank you Leslie, and a Happy New Year to you. Any resolutions this year?
Never make resolutions, too easy to break them.
Leslie 😉
I was with a group of people last New Year and we all made resolutions, of the order of meditating for forty minutes every day (mine) , taking a photo of the dawn sky every day and so on. The only one who kept to his resolution was the Silent Travelling Companion who learnt the shakuhachi and practices every day.
No resolutions from here, but I still have a couple of days. It might be fodder for a haibun, however.
Gert, you are going to have to enlighten me…what is the shakuhachi?
Leslie
Japanese bamboo flute.
that must be lovely….
I might adopt one of yours; write two haiku every day. Who knows where that might lead
Two haiku a day can be a little like NaNoWriMo — it’s definitely not all good. But there are gems among them.
So beautiful…happy new year to you too