I think New Year's is supposed to be a time to pause and think.

About the year that passed, about the year that's just beginning.

But tonight, I'm not interested in reflecting on the past or thinking to the future.

Every person, experience, thought, feeling of the past is filling me up.

All the potential of the future is making me overflow.

In this moment, everything - everyone - is with me.

And I can only be grateful and happy for that:

to be exactly where I am.

Here. Now.

We are intrepid.
We carry on.

Please, please, please...

Haven't had a dream in a long time
See, the life I've had
Can make a good man bad

So for once in my life
Let me get what I want
Lord knows, it would be the first time.

I believe that accessibility does not equate to disposability.

I believe that quality does not equate to inaccessibility.

I believe that the abstract can be accessible.

I believe that accessible does not equate to transparent.

I believe that pop can endure.

I believe that authenticity equates to quality.

I believe that reproducibility does not decrease quality.

I believe that the context of the moment of exposure affects reaction.

I believe that personal truth is in the reaction.

I believe reaction is performance art.

I believe art is connection, and art is reaction.

I believe art is life.

Goddamn. I just want all of this for everyone, all the time.

"I'm full of bad feeling."

Mrs. Murry stroked Meg's shaggy head. "Do you know why?"

"I hate being an oddball," Meg said. "It's hard on Sandy and Dennys, too. I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're just able to pretend they are. I try to pretend, but it isn't any help."

"You're much too straightforward to be able to pretend to be what you aren't," Mrs. Murry said.

- Madeleine L'Engle, A Wrinkle in Time