It's becoming increasingly obvious that I'd be safer planning to send New Year's cards rather than Christmas cards. I can only hope we're not talking about 2010.
I was pondering using this Benjamin Franklin quote:
Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.
Does "a better man" ping anyone? Should I be politically correct and historically incorrect as say "a better person"? Should I leave off giving people advice from long-dead people?
Other possibilities:
"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." - Mark Twain
For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.
And to make an end is to make a beginning.
- T.S. Eliot
Personally, I've never had a problem with the use of "man" or "men" in older material. Including hymns (in large part because the "updates" tend to suck -- poetry is hard enough ONCE, you know?).
Fly-by posting to say:
yay, to Sparky on the sparklette!! yaya!!!!!
{{{vw}}} I am glad you recognize your own achievements. You work hard for them.
all kinds of ~ma for ita today. I really hope this treatment works.
Personally, I've never had a problem with the use of "man" or "men" in older material.
I never have either, which is why I thought I'd better ask.
Ginger, I love the quote. Would you be crediting Franklin in the card, because if so I would think most reasonable people would get it, and if not, well -- if the wish works, maybe they'll get it the next year.
It's Ben Franklin, so it's understandable. But I love the Elliot quote.
It took me reading to the end of that article to understand that "slits his throat" was literal - in that he hadn't died from it. How creepy.
And Ginger, I like your quote, esp. if it's credited because that helps place the language in history.
to start posting stuff I've found on my own - like this.
Oh, SIGH indeed. That is GORGEOUS. *whimpers because she lives in freakin' FLORIDA*
S'okay, though. I consoled myself with these. On deep, deep, deeeeeeep discount, even.
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Hey Emily - come to Michigan for New Year's and stay with us.
Hmm, no can do. Can I make up for it by getting you another camel?
