To beg, borrow and steal
from Charles Dickens,
2015 was the best of times
and it was the worst.
Perhaps 2016 will be the same,
but I shall recollect, with love,
and by no other name, how
even the fiercest winds never
once frightened away the birds.
We may have leftovers from 2014 that we can still hold on this year too. Hope. Money. Gadgets. Memories. It could be anything. Or anyone. We may also have to let go, either forcibly or by free will, of a few things. Love. Accommodation. Job. Friends. It doesn’t really matter. In about 8 months, 2016 will arrive. And we will be back, summarizing the year. Chronicling the peaks. Surveying the valleys. Telling ourselves that things will be okay. Knowing that somehow it was all worth the effort.
Chestnut Munias, Ponneri
Chestnut Munias
verseherder 
a number,
if added
together
equals
7
7 is a number
birds like
7
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Wish you a very happy new year 2015!! 🙂
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Thanks comrade 🙂 i hope u have a beaaaautiful year too
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A nice way to bid adieu to 2014 🙂
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The birds never once flew away.. that’s such a lovely thought.
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Love your site. Thanks for following Nutsrok
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I’m glad that in 2014 I met you.
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likewise to the tee, comrade 🙂
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Best of times and worst of times hmm…I’d have to say those trophies go to my 2012.
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I hope you have a verse to remember it by 🙂
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I have a song or two 🙂
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(leaps)
yaaay! 🙂
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Was my worst year but yes, even it’s fiercest winds, never once frightened me :). Hopeful for 2015. Hope you have a happy year ahead too.
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To paraphrase a writer, “once more into the fray, into the last good fight we’ll ever know, live and die on this day, live and die on this day”, have a lovely 2015 comrade 🙂
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Lovely post. Thanks for sharing 🙂
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thanks rachel 🙂 you have a lovely 2015
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2014 the worst I ever had …then again so relative …so many years more to go…may be worse no? Lovely shots ! Have a good 2015 !
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Nah you said it was the worst. Let’s just leave it at that. In a corner. Forgotten. Chin up, comrade, 2015 will bring you light and love, call it a herder’s intuition 🙂
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Aaaah I think I shall hold on to that intuition like the last straw of hope ! Chin up it is !
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Attagirl, your toes and the marks they leave on warm sand will thank you for it too 🙂
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Merci !
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❤
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it is worth the effort..
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