The T.S. Eliot quote about last year’s words and next year’s language — that’s the one that stands out for me. Thank you! Even so, I will stick with the time-tested Happy New Year!!!
Thank you, Jesse, for your words and your energy that is so captivating. Happy New Year!!! I'm still in time to tell you my wishes 😉. Greetings from Argentine!
In Greece we say Happy New Year (καλή χρονιά) and every 1st of the month we say Happy New Month (καλό μήνα) and every Monday we say Happy new week (καλή εβδομάδα). We are always renewing our way.
That’s quite a refreshing question . I think we can say “Happy New Year” for as long as it feels right to each of us . It’s an uplifting greeting so why not . So the Happiest of New Years to y’all !!✌🏼🩵
I said “Happy New Year” to the crotchety man down the block while walking my dog and he smiled while returning the sentiment. This is good work ❤️. Happy New Year, Jesse!
I am so happy to be on your Substack and so happy that you decided to pursue this project. I’ve been a fan of your mom’s for years++ (I’m 73). I wish I could have attended one of the Steel concerts in December, as I’ve been to so many of her shows, including several end-of-years. Alas, it didn’t work out this year, but being part of her Substack since the beginning, and now yours, is wonderful. I especially love your selection of those particular passages from Thoreau! He is one of my “masters,” one of my all-time loves. The passages you selected are, I think, perfect praise of and gratitude for all the simplicity and majesty (what a miraculous paradox) of Nature. You asked about other writers. Another of my all-time loves in American lit, one whose writings are a virtual Bible for me, is Walt Whitman. I will never stop reading from LEAVES OF GRASS. I have a facsimile copy of the 1855 first edition, which I treasure. I try to remember to say, every day, as part of my “prayers,” Walt’s lines “Nature without check, with original energy,” and “Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world.” One more thought, and I’ll stop: it’s January 5, Eve of the Epiohany/the visit of the Magi to the Christ Child/“Little Christmas.” As such, it’s time for me to reread the incomparable short story by James Joyce, “The Dead.” (I’m a “Joycean” … a retired Professor of English. I specialize in aspects of Irish and American literature.)
Happy New Year, Jessie and our community. I really love "You are never to old to set another goal or dream a new dream." C S Lewis "And suddenly you know...it's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings." Meister Eckhart
It's good to stop. Take a moment (which is the only thing we really have) feel our breath and be grateful for that miracle... our breath.
I was born on New Year’s Day, 40 minutes later my twin sister arrived, my brother celebrated his first birthday on January 15, and my husband celebrated his first birthday on January 31. We officially celebrate birthday month where everything counts (snow, ice forming lace on the car windows, the back lighting of flowers on the window sills, on and on). Now we will add Happy New Year greetings as well. For so many reasons on so many levels, we celebrate with gratitude our circling round the sun once again.
hey! i really thought your piano playing on Song of Nature is so beautiful, thank you. (i think i might be in the wrong thread but, that's ok.) love to all xo
My favorite of the quotes is from my favorite of the group: Louise May Alcott, “...and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.” But all of the quotes you shared are wonderful! Thank you, and Happy New Year.:-)
we live in an age of reckonings over who gets to tell stories and how and why....you are a welcome breath of honesty, insight, and kindness. happy new year - xoxoxo
“Every moment instructs, and every object: for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after a long time.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
The T.S. Eliot quote about last year’s words and next year’s language — that’s the one that stands out for me. Thank you! Even so, I will stick with the time-tested Happy New Year!!!
Thank you, Jesse, for your words and your energy that is so captivating. Happy New Year!!! I'm still in time to tell you my wishes 😉. Greetings from Argentine!
In Greece we say Happy New Year (καλή χρονιά) and every 1st of the month we say Happy New Month (καλό μήνα) and every Monday we say Happy new week (καλή εβδομάδα). We are always renewing our way.
That’s quite a refreshing question . I think we can say “Happy New Year” for as long as it feels right to each of us . It’s an uplifting greeting so why not . So the Happiest of New Years to y’all !!✌🏼🩵
☺️☺️☺️Agreed! This was so great to read this morning - Happy New Year to you!!! ☺️☺️☺️☺️
🔝😃😄A Happy New Year to you Jesse !!✌🏼🖤
Late to this post - enjoyed the quotes all of which offer such a meaningful approach to living each day! Thank you
I said “Happy New Year” to the crotchety man down the block while walking my dog and he smiled while returning the sentiment. This is good work ❤️. Happy New Year, Jesse!
Happy New Year Jesse! So happy to have you here!
Happy New Year, Jesse!
I am so happy to be on your Substack and so happy that you decided to pursue this project. I’ve been a fan of your mom’s for years++ (I’m 73). I wish I could have attended one of the Steel concerts in December, as I’ve been to so many of her shows, including several end-of-years. Alas, it didn’t work out this year, but being part of her Substack since the beginning, and now yours, is wonderful. I especially love your selection of those particular passages from Thoreau! He is one of my “masters,” one of my all-time loves. The passages you selected are, I think, perfect praise of and gratitude for all the simplicity and majesty (what a miraculous paradox) of Nature. You asked about other writers. Another of my all-time loves in American lit, one whose writings are a virtual Bible for me, is Walt Whitman. I will never stop reading from LEAVES OF GRASS. I have a facsimile copy of the 1855 first edition, which I treasure. I try to remember to say, every day, as part of my “prayers,” Walt’s lines “Nature without check, with original energy,” and “Urge and urge and urge, Always the procreant urge of the world.” One more thought, and I’ll stop: it’s January 5, Eve of the Epiohany/the visit of the Magi to the Christ Child/“Little Christmas.” As such, it’s time for me to reread the incomparable short story by James Joyce, “The Dead.” (I’m a “Joycean” … a retired Professor of English. I specialize in aspects of Irish and American literature.)
Happy New Year, Jessie and our community. I really love "You are never to old to set another goal or dream a new dream." C S Lewis "And suddenly you know...it's time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings." Meister Eckhart
It's good to stop. Take a moment (which is the only thing we really have) feel our breath and be grateful for that miracle... our breath.
I was born on New Year’s Day, 40 minutes later my twin sister arrived, my brother celebrated his first birthday on January 15, and my husband celebrated his first birthday on January 31. We officially celebrate birthday month where everything counts (snow, ice forming lace on the car windows, the back lighting of flowers on the window sills, on and on). Now we will add Happy New Year greetings as well. For so many reasons on so many levels, we celebrate with gratitude our circling round the sun once again.
Happy New Year
hey! i really thought your piano playing on Song of Nature is so beautiful, thank you. (i think i might be in the wrong thread but, that's ok.) love to all xo
Totally agree re Jesse at the piano on the Michael Stipes piece. Outstanding!
My favorite of the quotes is from my favorite of the group: Louise May Alcott, “...and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.” But all of the quotes you shared are wonderful! Thank you, and Happy New Year.:-)
I LOVE the Eliot quote.
we live in an age of reckonings over who gets to tell stories and how and why....you are a welcome breath of honesty, insight, and kindness. happy new year - xoxoxo
“Every moment instructs, and every object: for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after a long time.” Ralph Waldo Emerson