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Ringing in a new leap year ... !

1/1/2020

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"Hope smiles from the threshold of the year to come, whispering, 'It will be happier.'"  So said Alfred Lord Tennyson.

The year 2020 is a leap year.  The term leap year came into being in the late 14th century, and may be so called because its causes fixed festival days to "leap" ahead one day in its respective week.

Every four years an added day is inserted into the calendar because seasons and events do not perfectly align with 365 days and such events tend to cause them to drift out of sequence over time.

However, there are exceptions to this.  Specifically, a year that can be evenly divided by 100, but not evenly divided by 400, is not a leap year.  For instance, 1900 is not a leap year.

In essence, we have an extra day this year in which to hope that it will be a happier one.  A New Year’s resolution is potentially a device one can use to insure it will be so, like a personal promise cast forward.
    

It is said that New Year’s resolutions were first made by the ancient Babylonians about 4000 years ago.  They also were the first to hold new year’s celebrations, according to historical records.

I rather agree with the artist Henry Moore’s way of thinking “in terms of the day's resolutions, not the year's.”  However you celebrate, or whether you celebrate such things, I wish you all a very ... Happy New Year!!!



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10/29/2020 05:01:41 am

So far, 2020 is not that great of a year. We are facing a pandemic right now because of the outbreak of coronavirus. It is now October, which means we are only two months away until we have to start another new year. I never imagined this is the situation we will be in right now, but I am still grateful because I am alive. I hope that this pandemic will be over soon and we can all go back to living our lives the way we did before.

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    I've written many poems over the years.  This blog is a preview of my books: Echoes, Neo-Victorian Poetry (April 2013), Echoes ll, More Neo-Victorian Poetry (May 2014), Echoes lll, Even More Neo-Victorian Poetry, (August 2016), A Compilation of Echoes. (September 2016), and When None Command (April 13, 2019)

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