Auld Lang Syne...............

.........means "Old Long Since" in some obscure tongue or argot or another. It doesn't make much sense in English either.

I heard a story once about some prince or another that sent for all his wise men and counselors. He asked of them to say one thing to him that would make him happy when he was sad and sad when he was happy..... (don't ask me why ....some princely balance thing or another I suppose).
Of course that thing was: "This too shall pass."

As the dark nadir of the solstice passed in 1998, and I reflected my way to a New Year that I knew would bring on a welter of cascading changes in my life.........(I had no clue how many or how profound)....I thought about this little story. It was in that vein that I coined what has since become a signature New Year's Greeting for me.
One that, at the very same time, would bless the worthy and pierce the heart of the guilty.

......Thus,dear readers and friends......

"May everyone get what they deserve in 2006!"

Thus endeth the entry...........