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Standing beside friends and family,
beside friends who have become family,
beside family who you’ve realized are some of your best friends.
Looking back on old days past.
AULD LANG SYNE
Listening to the roaring crackle of the fireplace.
Celebrating all the precious moments we’ve experienced that can not be rewritten.
Popping bottles of champagne.
Toasting cheers to the times gone by.
AULD LANG SYNE
Times that make us better;
the days we were at our highest of highs or our lowest of lows
we are loved just the same.
And when we remember them
we remember our humanity
our frailty
our strength
our failures
our triumphs.
We remember how atrocious humankind can be
but also how compassionate generous and magnificent they can be.
AULD LANG SYNE
We recall how quickly time is fleeting
we quantify a year
12 months
52 weeks
365 days
525,600 minutes
We come to terms with the reality that
a year
can be simultaneously
devasting and rejuvenating
challenging and exhilarating
exhausting and rewarding.
We are embellished in white (as is customary in Brazil)
and as the clock moves closer to midnight we
raise our glasses,
begin the countdown,
shout Feliz Ano Novo,
kiss and hug the one’s we love
&
sing.
That as we approach the days ahead
we would take a cup of kindness yet
not forgetting the people who got us through this year
not forgetting old times gone by
AULD LANG SYNE
So Cheers to Old Times Gone By
who’ve made us who we are thus far,
& Cheers to New Times Yet to Pass,
who’ll help us discover more + more of who we were destined to become.
AULD LANG SYNE
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