I thought about the new year
while sitting in a tree.
I did the same thing last year,
time matters not to me.
Tell me, honestly—
Did you see the day pass by
the last second in-between,
when time inside someone’s eyes
became 2014?
Covered in dust, I’m drifting
into tomorrow’s dream
as thought continues shifting
shapes into the things I see…..
While time’s illusion wanders on
more or less unseen,
I appreciate you walking
through reflective words with me.
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Happy New Year!
Wishing you warm blessings
today, tomorrow, and through
all the moments of your life. ~ms
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Before I Forget 
Pretty cool random thoughts! Happy new year to you, too.
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Good morning and Happy New Year to you!
Kind of cold here, so I started out this new day slowly…all wrapped in blankets.
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Happy New Year!
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Happy New Year to you also!
I’m sure this new year will be filled with more opportunities for many quiet solo pursuits! 🙂
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Happy New Year Mary!
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Best wishes and Happy New Year to you too!
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Happy New Year to you 🙂
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Happy New Year to you too, Ahmed!
I hope it is a good one for all of us.
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Great post. Hope you have a healthy and happy new year.
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Thanks Tric! Happy New Year and Blessings to you!
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Happy New Year!!!
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Happy New Year to you also!
And may you have as much adventure in the coming year as you can possible crave. 😉
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It’s only us people who measure time, all the other creatures do just fine without knowing what day or year it is – they just live in the now. Happy New Year Mary!
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That’s true! None of them are wearing watches.
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🙂 I finally gave up and got a new battery for my watch yesterday.
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And I have lost my watch again….
somewhere under the bed. 😉
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Fabulous photos. Wishing you many blessings for the new year. (But I like the line ‘time matters not to me’)
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Time matters most to those who feel like they are running out of time to do what they really want to do. You two are already living life to its fullest, so time matters not! Love reading about your adventures together.
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Best wishes for you in 2014, Happy New Year Mary! 😉
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Thanks Michael……sniff, cough. I think I have the flu or something. I need some warm tea? It’s COLD outside tonight! A cold wind is blowing and it is supposed to go down to 4 degrees (Fahrenheit). That’s pretty darn cold for the state of Virginia.
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Happy New Year!
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I hope it is a great year for all of us…..fingers crossed!
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What a delightfully creative way to end the year! Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year to you too!
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And it is actually snowing outside.
This is the first snow that I have seen this winter.
The other 2 storms were ice!
I prefer snow…..
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Really do love this post, the words and the pensive pose you captured of the gorilla! A Very Happy 2014 to you filled with images,poetry and random thoughts to share!!
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Thanks Judy! Looking at that photo, I do wonder what the gorilla is thinking. Seems to be very serious.
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Wishing you a most Happy New Year Mary filled with discovery and happiness. with love, Eddie
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Thank you so much Eddie Two Hawks!
Traveling through life with wide open eyes….we will always be discovering new and interesting things. Being able to share our discoveries with others is a great source of happiness for both of us, I think!
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Love the elephant blowing dust without any other care in the world! Happy New Year filled with memorable blogs 🙂
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Thanks!
Perhaps the elephant blew too much of that dust my way?!
I started out this new year with some sort of cold.
And I coughed and I coughed….and I coughed so much I felt like I was about to break in two.
But then, I got better except….ummm…now I have no voice. 😉
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😦 But you can still write!!! 🙂
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Super!
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Thank you very much!
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Happy New Year, to you Mary; I discovered your wonderfully-named “Before I Forget” through a comment you left at a blog I like (the also wonderfully-named “The Life of Your Times”) and came to have a look around.
Was just browsing, I thought, but you hooked me with that fat cat and his girlfriend (in November) and the misguided little squirrel. (Such a cautionary tale about our dreams !)
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Thank you, Kathlin! Ah yes….the poor misguided squirrel. Divided by glass, she still loved the image of the fat cat so much. I hope that squirrel is doing OK out there in the wintry weather. I haven’t seen her for awhile. It went all the way down to 4 degrees (Fahrenheit) 2 nights ago, which is rather rare for Virginia.
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I should take more time to browse through your exquisite and profound poetry which I wish to do as soon as I’ve finished restoring my blog! It is taking much longer than I thought to reinsert all those photos erased by sheer ignorance toward technology but now I know 😉
We sometimes learn the hard way but oh boy… we never forget!
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Sometimes technology is so unforgiving. I have had to reinsert photos before….horribly time consuming!
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Do I sympathize!!!!!!!!
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Thoughts coming from the core of the heart.
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loved it! a very thoughtful, playful way of looking at a year
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