If you sang For Auld Lang Syne last night, you should thank the 18th Century Scots Poet Robert Burns for the lyrics. “Auld Lang Syne” is a Scots phrase meaning “old long since,” or more poetically, “for old time’s sake,” referring to times long past and cherished friendships, with the song urging us to remember…
Category: #New Year’s Goals & Resolutions
Thoughts on New Year’s Eve: To God Be the Glory. His Work Is Not Done
Three years ago, Doubleday for Young Reader [a division of Penguin Random House] published my picture book The Donkey’s Song. Since the day that my editor acquired my book [about 5 years ago], I have repeatedly told everyone who would listen that everything about my picture book and its publication is miraculous. In fact, every…
Seeking to Find My Balance in the New Year
“Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds’ wings.”― Jelaluddin Rumi , The Essential Rumi It’s not a new thing for me — Every…