Thank you, Annie, for your intelligent response. There are certain people on these forums who can always be counted on to stir the pot, and not in a pleasant way. I respect differences of opinion and will listen and consider when those differences are presented without it being about scoring points, making the other person feel inferior or to demonstrate one’s perceived intellectual capacity.

I will bury the money and say rabbit, rabbit. I wonder what the traditions are to ensure health, strength and wisdom in the new year?

Happy New Year to all.

Thanks, ded. I agree about the need for more tolerance.

As far as ensuring those good things in the new year, I can only offer this suggestion:

"We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do.”

-- Mahatma Gandhi

Or as it is often condensed to: Be the change you wish to see in the world.

Happy New Year to all! And many more.

Annie, you keep right on posting your cute monthly reminders. We understand it's all in fun, although I personally also see it as a moment to stop briefly and consider how quickly our days pass by - month after month ... the time speeds by alarmingly, doesn't it?

There are some who are incredibly fearful of that which they don't understand, and they demonstrate their fear with attempts to control. We can't change that; only personal growth and transformation can open eyes and cause acceptance to flourish. I can say this with assurance, having held very narrow views for much of my past. I now rejoice in the belief in a universal truth that is so vastly beyond our knowing, and so amazingly and unconditionally loving, that all of our little traditions and superstitions and human foibles are absolutely nothing when held up to this transcendent light that embraces us all.

For the love of all things holy, let us enjoy our "human beingness" while we have it. We are granted the gift of these few months to speak of "rabbit rabbits" and to not take ourselves and our fellow human blunderings so damned seriously. Let us strive for true connection to the divine and may that work itself out here on this planet as a true connection to others, manifested in kind and helpful works.

Wishing you all a wonderful 2023. May we all see the miracle in the ordinary.

Excellent post, Ida!

And I’m certain it is exactly what Jesus would do! Or any other human who loves life.

Look on the sunnyside of life.

Thank you, @Annie Deighnaugh, for your monthly reminders!

Thanks for the earworm, Roxsol. A lot of truth in this song!

ded, it is a fun song for sure. This is the scene from the movie.

Such a funny movie! I watched it again just recently.

As I mentioned in another thread, Rabbit Rabbit supercedes Happy New Year at my house now.

Thank you for this great bit of fun, Annie.

This new year on the Chinese calendar markes the Year of the Rabbit, no less.

PS Annie, you should teach a class on answering people with grace while still forcefully making your point. You are a master of this art!

Thank you Zalco. Kind of you to say.

Thank you Annie!

Thank you, Annie, for the reminder, and also for fhe wise words. And to Ida also.

I look forward to the ’rabbit, rabbit’ reminders in fun and also tend to reflect more on the passage of time, the beginning of a fresh start to the month and another chance to do better and be better. I don’t need anyone I don’t know naysaying the life I (or anyone else here) live or what I choose to do.

Happy New Year to all you rabbit-ers!

Thank you Annie once again I remembered due to your kind reminder every single month of the year. Much appreciated.

Happy New year all!

I remembered! Thanks, Annie.

Happy New Year, everyone. 🎊🎉

12:02 I said it. Happy New Year all!

Happy new year, everyone!

I forgot to rabbit rabbit. 😖 I usually block my clock to remind me when I wake up in the night. When I woke up this morning, DH said something to me, and I answered. Oops. Oh well, I still have to dig up my money.

Happy New Year to one and all.

I remembered this morning. I use this as a little test of my cognitive abilities and not in any way do I think it will bring me any particular luck.

And I've finally decided that arcy's religious posts are Spam.

We did our usual....set the alarm for 11:45 pm. Got up, watched the ball drop, waited another 15 or 20 seconds just to be sure, then said it. I heard a couple of fireworks going off, so I went outside with my large Tibetan cowbell and rang it as loudly as I could, literally ringing in the new year.

I actually remembered the rabbit rabbit this morning :) I didn't do the bury thing.

I wonder if with the rising popularity of Satan and the various forms of him in modern urban legend and media might lead to a rise of satanic panic in 2023. I think Lucifer is a bit more trendy right now than Satan, but Satan tends to be more popular for the panics.

Annie, you are so eloquent, and have such a wonderful grasp of the English language and grammar. You truly make a point without getting into nasties.

You're a treasure on this board as you know. You get the morning started with your daily posts, and of course your monthly bunnytail reminders. I look forward to everything you post!

I went to bed, then woke to a bunch of fireworks, lifted the paper covering off of my clock and yep it was shortly after midnight, so I said it.

The first word out if my mouth was Cricket…gd it …..Cricket! yelling at the dog for barking at the fireworks/m80’s going off in the neighborhood. That has to count for something, no?

Thank you kindly, jasdip. And thank you too for your wonderful contributions...I don't know how you find all those fabulous noodlers for our daily quizzes! You're a treasure. I wish we lived closer and could meet. Maybe sometime...

"And I've finally decided that arcy's religious posts are Spam."

Maire, it's funny. I'm dear friends with a very Christian woman who is like a mother to me. I've always found her behavior, her open-heartedness and kindness more attractive and better exemplars of what it really means to be Christian than any of the lectures, remarks, comments, asides, preachings or self-righteous haughtiness that is so common among people who feel they need to *prove* how christian they are by passing judgments on others.

Everyone is always allowed to comment on Arcy’s behavior except me, but I’m posting this anyway.

Fits a lot of people I‘ve known, besides her.

Jinx, on my threads you are allowed to make whatever comments you want.

Thanks for the reminder, Annie, and I said it aloud shortly after midnight, as well. I, too, find it a measure of time passing... it seems to come up too frequently anymore!

Happy New Year, everyone.