New Year's Day

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, 
drawing up a list of work to be done, 
cracks to be patched. 

Maybe this year, to balance the list, 
we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential.

-Ellen Goodman

A New Year

The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. 

It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; 
new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes.

-G.K. Chesterton