NEW YEAR'S DAY!
A prosperous, healthy, and safe New Year!
Finding strength in what remains behind, and starting new beginnings.
To keep going back and wish about our yesterdays prevent us from living fully and moving on. We all make mistakes. If others can't forgive us no matter how we try to make amends, we can't do much about that. But what we can do is forgive ourselves and do something about it, give ourselves a fresh chance --- a new year beckons. Welcome the new year!
The past is gone. Today onward is full of possibilities. Acceptance of the present conditions in our lives that we cannot change provides relief; appeases. It brings the peacefulness we so often seek.
Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote this poignant poem "Auld Lang Syne" in the late 1700s.
The past is gone. Today onward is full of possibilities. Acceptance of the present conditions in our lives that we cannot change provides relief; appeases. It brings the peacefulness we so often seek.
Scottish poet Robert Burns wrote this poignant poem "Auld Lang Syne" in the late 1700s.
Auld Lang Syne - Last Night Of The Proms 2023 - Live At The Royal Albert Hall. Conducted by Marin Alsop. Arranged by Paul Cambell.
Here's another link to Auld Lang Syne, with lyrics and English translation.
Birthdays
1449 - Lorenzo de Medici (also known as Lorenzo the Magnificent by contemporary Florentines.), Italian magnate, diplomat, and politician. He was a de facto ruler of the Florentine Republic and the most powerful and enthusiastic patron of scholar, artists, and poets - Renaissance culture in Italy. Also known as Lorenzo the Magnificent by contemporary Florentines.
1879 - E.M. Forster (Edward Morgan Forster), OM CH, English author, best known for his novels, particularly A Room with a View (1908), Howards End (1910) and A Passage to India (1924). He also wrote numerous short stories, essays, speeches and broadcasts, as well as a limited number of biographies and some pageant plays. E.M. Forster also co-authored the opera Billy Budd (1951). Today, he is considered one of the most successful of the Edwardian era English novelists. (E.M. Forster; Life & Works, uploaded by Literature forever. Accessed January 1, 2017. Why you should read Forster's Howards End, uploaded by Effusions of Wit. Accessed January 1, 2015.)
1908 - Eileen A. Joyce, Australian Pianist. She lived in England. Her recordings made her popular during World War II; at her zenith she was compared in popular esteem with Gracie Fields and Vera Lynn. When she played in Berlin in 1947 with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, an eminent German critic classed her with Clara Schumann, Sophie Menter and Teresa Carreño. When she performed in the U.S. in 1950, Irving Kolodin called her "the world's greatest unknown pianist". In the 1950s, she played 50 recitals in London alone, which were always sold out. Her Mozart was described as "of impeccable taste and feeling", she was a Bach player "of commanding authority", and "a Lisztian of both poetry and bravura". Her playing of the second movement of Rachmaninoff's 2nd Piano Concerto in the films Brief Encounter and The Seventh Veil (both 1945) helped popularise the work. (E. Joyce plays 'Piano Favourites (1950s')
1919 - J.D. Salinger (Jerome David Salinger), American Writer known for his novel The Catcher in the Rye. Salinger published several short stories in Story magazine in the early 1940s before serving in World War II. In 1948, his critically acclaimed story "A Perfect Day for Bananafish" appeared in The New Yorker, which became home to much of his later work. The Catcher in the Rye was published in 1951 and became an immediate popular success. Salinger's depiction of adolescent alienation and loss of innocence in the protagonist Holden Caulfield was influential, especially among adolescent readers. The novel was widely read and controversial.
Leftie:
We remember and thank leftie Emperor Charlemagne (born April 2, 742) for establishing our present calendar, and making the first New Year's Day as January 1, A.D. 799.
More birthdays and historical events, January 1 - On This Day
45 BC - New Year's Day is celebrated for the first time, after Julius Caesar's reform of the calendar to 365 days. Our calendar os based on the slightly revised version created by Pope Gregory in 1582.
1818 - Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein (subtitled The Modern Prometheus), is published.
1908 - Gustav Mahler accepts the post of principal conductor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and makes his debut directing Tristan und Isolde.
1978 - Air India Flight 855 Boeing 747 explodes and crashes into the sea off the coast of Bombay, killing 213 people.
Historical Events
45 BC - New Year's Day is celebrated for the first time, after Julius Caesar's reform of the calendar to 365 days. Our calendar os based on the slightly revised version created by Pope Gregory in 1582.
1818 - Mary Shelley's novel Frankenstein (subtitled The Modern Prometheus), is published.
1908 - Gustav Mahler accepts the post of principal conductor at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and makes his debut directing Tristan und Isolde.
1978 - Air India Flight 855 Boeing 747 explodes and crashes into the sea off the coast of Bombay, killing 213 people.
10 of the Best Poems for the New Year. Interesting Literature. Accessed January 1, 2017.
Auld Lang Syne - Last Night Of The Proms 2023 - Live At The Royal Albert Hall. Conducted by Marin Alsop, arranged by Paul Cambell. Youtube, uploaded by Spikonia on the March. Accessed January 1, 2024.
Resources:
1. Asiado, Tel. The World's Movers and Shapers. New Hampshire: Ore Mountain Publishing House (2005)
2. Britannica. www.britannica.com
3. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 19th Ed. London: Chambers Harrap, 2011
4. Dateline. Sydney: Millennium House, (2006)
5. Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org
(c) June 2007. Updated January 1, 2024. Tel. Inspired Pen Web. All rights reserved.
3. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 19th Ed. London: Chambers Harrap, 2011
4. Dateline. Sydney: Millennium House, (2006)
5. Grun, Bernard. The Timetables of History, New 3rd Revised Ed. Simon & Schuster/Touchstone (1991)
6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org
(c) June 2007. Updated January 1, 2024. Tel. Inspired Pen Web. All rights reserved.
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