Fabulous Friday - New Year's Eve

Happy New Year's Eve!  Here in the northern hemisphere, the calendar year starts in the dead of winter (this is not a recent photo - no weather like that yet this winter) and celebrating the start of the year is an opportunity for renewed hope. The fertility of the past year, feeds us through the winter, bringing us imperial tidbits and libations for tonight. And as the sun shines a few more minutes each day we see renewed hope of a coming season of warmth and fertility.  Trees such as the apple, remind us that a period of dormancy are needed, to assure fruitfulness. The primary reason apples don't grow in the south is without the dormancy of winter, they tend to not be fruitful, you can grow the tree, but they produce very little fruit. (There are modern hybrids that break this rule, but are they really apples if they have been manipulated to grow in unnatural ways?) Assure that you have your period of dormancy, downtime, rest time, restoration and recovery time.  

I have never been one for going out on New Year's Eve.  A friend of mine called it amateure  hour, when people who don't know how to drink and drive, try to.  And I am not a big fan of crowds, and noise.  So New Year's Eve is a night to stay home, to stay in.  I almost always stay up. I miss Johnny Carson, and Guy Lombardo,  we will see what is done to embarrass sweet Anderson Cooper in Times Square.  It doesn't look like Kathy Griffin has been released from exile, sad that. 

I little bubbly, fruit cake, caviar, a little cash in my hand, and a kiss from my beloved bear, will help to assure good luck in the year to come. 

Have a fun, fabulous and safe time,