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and checks with last year's date before we remember that the calendar has noted a step up in the numerals.
Let's see: I'm a year older; the joints creak a year worse; there are a few more gray hairs on the dome; and the motor rebels at being run at top speed. But things could be a lot worse. My digestion is still good and I don't dread sitting down at the table nor do I regret what I've eaten. I sleep like a baby-—when I manage to stop work long enough to/ get to sleep.
Yes, it's a pretty good world. 13*52 wasn’t so bad, and I’ve every reason to hope*rl&53 will be just as good, or maybe better.
Thank goodness I cant forsee the coming year. It might be nice to anticipate the good things that will come, but then, there would be the bad—and come a few of them must—and I'd rather just face them as they arrive and not have to brood over them aforehand.
As a friend so aptly misquoted: Hope springs eternal in the human beast—and so it should.
The long-faced pessimist needs a good dosing of religion. He needs faith; be needs to remind himself that thhe Good Lord has taken care of him all during this many years and He’ll continue to do so.
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Oh, dear-me! I was all prepared to make myself a nice new set of resolutions for the New Year. (It seems like such a harmless form of amusement, and, after all, it only happens once a year.)
With a freshly starched halo placed carefully a-top my silvering coiffure (phew! where did that come from?), 1 was preparing to end all my shortcomings with strong resolve to improve. Then— I read a book. (My brother has always told me that was what was wrong with me: I read a book.) The book said that "according to a number of psychiatrists, New Year’s resolutions are just a bit silly." Isn’t that like some mean, smart-aleck to spoil our fun? "They believe," said the book, "that a person who makes resolutions is something of an exhibitionist in addition to being quite childish." Well, what’s so terrible about that? There's a fellow living in Washington right now, who is moving to Missouri after January
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