Rusty Ring

I first encountered the oft-cited invocation below in a newspaper column by United Congregational minister Dale Turner. At the time I ass...

Like a lot of old people, I've come to find myself adrift at Christmas. Family mostly gone. Friends busy with their own. I nev...

"Here’s my new year’s wish to all those of genuine good will and decency: "May you have the strength and the courage ...

New Year's is upon us again, and as usual I'm in a reflective mood. This time I've got the Cowboys Fringants' Ici-bas ru...

'Way back at university I decided I had to do something about New Year's Day. Here in Anglophonia, it's only a holiday in the ...

Back in 2014 I shared a little one-man Christmas cheer game I indulge in at this time of year, a simple Google search string that fills...

In one year and out the other. (Photo courtesy of Beau Swierstra and Unsplash.com.)

Here's another great example of a video that adds striking dimension to the song it accompanies. Not that it isn't fine as it is; ...

"Que la hoguera en la noche recuerde la luz de las estrellas fallecidas." Pablo Neruda (Translation here .)

(Unintended commentary on the season.) Appearing also on My Corner of the World .

a good world even from the quince thicket: "Happy New Year!" Issa

just a foot long, but it'll do New Year's pine Issa ( Pine Tree by Pan Dawei courtesy of Wikimedia Common...

(Every New Year's Day brasspounders observe Straight Key Night. During this 24-hour period [1 January UTC, 0000 to 2359], we esc...

As the holiday season softens into memory, we North Americans might pause to consider whether we've quite finished the job. W...

"Everything ends, and it's always sad. But everything begins again too, and that's always happy. "Be...

„Die Zeit hat in Wirklichkeit keine Einschnitte, es gibt kein Gewitter oder Drommetengetön beim Beginn eines neuen Monats oder Jahres, ...

I made this fistful of fudos for a friend's daughter who just graduated from high school. Graduation is an odd rite; we tell young p...

To commemorate this New Year's Day 2015 I offer a meditation on the passage of time. My brother's poetry here is so powerful...

Fictional bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Kuan Yin, Guanyin, Kanzeon, Kannon, Gwan-eum, Quan Âm) incarnates a specific insight about the nat...