<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459733" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>New Year Irresolution</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘So, what do you yourself wish for<br>this 2009? ..’ the microphone<br>is thrust; the videotape awaits…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and perhaps, there’s some golden link<br>between New Year wish and New Year resolution…<br>between the individual will and the universal..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">meanwhile, the sceptic stands aside, at the crowd’s edge, <br>without a wish or resolution; wondering, <br>‘are things/is the world, a better place, <br>at this New Year than at the last? ’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But, who then to set some standard<br>by which to judge this increment? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Who can measure happiness in bulk, <br>or goodwill to all men? How do Goodness, <br>Truth, and Beauty fare, <br>at this ending of the year? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">One criterion is certain: fewer now believe -<br>now Christmas is for sale itself, with<br>massive reductions in all departments<br>of the human store..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">yet we manage, thank you, very well<br>without the concept God..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But let’s suppose – as some wise men have claimed –<br>that though man needs no god, <br>that God needs Man…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">then God is one whole grisly year the wiser now<br>about this species, Man, whom He wound up<br>with His divine gold clockwork, and set down on garden soil…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">now there’s a happy thought for 2009…<br>a wiser God about His human child..</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But how, you ask, the proof? <br>the proof, dear reader, of this charming<br>whimsy, is entirely yours… <br>and only to be made in present moment; <br>where God forever dwells.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459733" data-title="New Year Irresolution de Michael Shepherd" data-description="‘So, what do you yourself wish for this 2009? ..’ the microphone is thrust; the videotape awaits… and perhaps, there’s some golden link between New Year wish and New Year resolution… between the individual will and the universal.. mean..."></div> </div> </div>

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