From: Travis Subject: Caglepost: Happy New Year Date: Saturday, December 27, 2008,
[image: THE CAGLE POST] <http://caglepost.com/> Would you like to reprint our cartoons on your site or in your publication? It's easy! Visit us here <http://politicalcartoons.com/>. * <http://caglepost.com/ticker.aspx>* Cartoon by Daryl Cagle<http://cagle.com/politicalcartoons/PCcartoons/cagle.asp> Comment on the cartoon<http://caglepost.com/cartoon.aspx?id=30354318-1916-4339-9E82-BB6882CB6B23> We have a great collection of cartoons called "2008 Year In Review" LOOK!<http://cagle.com/news/2008best> *Happy New Year*<http://www.caglepost.com/column/Martha+Randolph+Carr/18333/Happy+New+Year.html> by Martha Randolph Carr<http://www.caglepost.com/c/60/Martha+Randolph+Carr.html>- Comment on the column<http://www.caglepost.com/column/Martha+Randolph+Carr/18333/Happy+New+Year.html> New Year's resolutions are all about throwing ourselves into the future, which can ruin the present moment. We are encouraged to draw up a list of everything we don't like about ourselves and resolve to fix them all, all at once. Some of us spend the entire holiday season looking ahead imagining a better version of ourselves. We long for the moment when we will finally feel like we're enough and can truly celebrate a new beginning. Years go by with the same recycled list of resolutions. The first day of 2009 may cause quite a few of us to reflect on our economic past as well. Divorce lawyers report that the number of new clients peaks just before the New Year and many of us put on an extra ten pounds right around the middle. There is a great temptation to wonder what we could have done differently to insure that safe and happy future we can picture but we just don't seem to be able to grasp. Enough of the whining already. The truth is we only have the day we've been given and it's full of every possibility. But in order to enjoy the gift of this moment we have to be willing to rejoice in who we are right now and just start. That requires a new vision of ourselves as beautiful and capable, friendly and giving and able to forgive and show compassion. To see that shiny new self many of us will have to let go of the need to be right and a constant one-upmanship that has no end. A lot of old baggage has to be left at the curb and along with it an acknowledgment that we're okay even if we never get that apology. This year we can start out by giving ourselves an enormous gift of a blank slate. We can then start day one by coming up with ... *READ MORE<http://www.caglepost.com/column/Martha+Randolph+Carr/18333/Happy+New+Year.html> * *OUR NEW BOOK IS OUT! * <http://caglebook.com/> Follow Daryl each day on Twitter at: twitter.com/dcagle<http://twitter.com/dcagle> [image: Visit the newest cartoons by all of our cartoonists!]<http://caglepost.com/ticker.aspx> ------------------------------ *TO UNSUBSCRIBE (Do Not Reply): email [email protected] or CLICK HERE<http://list.caglepost.com/unsubscribe.aspx> . Copyright Cagle Cartoons Inc, Columns and cartoons copyright the respective cartoonists and columnists. All Rights Reserved.* -- *~@):~{> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
