Happy New Year's Eve 2024 - Let Your Reflection Shine!

Let it shine, shine, shine .. All around the world!

Tonight, we bid farewell to the last 12 months of 2024 .. and the hopeful awakening of 2025.

I wrote this caption on Christmas Day. I really didn't have that much to do on the actual holiday, as my immediate family was traveling to various parts known and unknown on the 25th, so we did Christmas on December 21. Because of that, I was thinking a bit ahead to the New Year, and what I would post for it. Ainxcw becoming a widower (way too early!) I had seen the meme of the disco mirror ball, and wanted to honor that, and when I saw this image, I knew it'd work well for what I wanted to convey. 

Remember, it doesn't matter where you are on your journey through life .. there's only one you. Be the best you, and the most authentic you that you can be .. and shine your light brightly for all to see!

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I was writing to Mrs. K, who had posted something to Kaaren's blog in honor of NYE, and I decided that I will post a bit of what I wrote to her, edited of course, but I think it would be a good way to end my posting for 2024.

2025 will be a better year. I say that to myself every year, and people tell me that I'm forever an optimist for that; but it's always best to have hope, and then the desire to keep plowing through until you get that better year .. and then top that the next twelve months. Maybe we'll do something we've never done before, or do something we haven't done in quite some time. 

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So, as I've done many times in the past, here is something I got from Helena and will share with you again. Along with Kaaren, Helena is another person that is no longer with us, that I miss immensely. 

Over here we have a seasons greeting, "Zalig uiteinde" meaning as much as a blissful ending of the year, combined with a happy new year. I can't recall ever hearing or reading of a similar greeting in English, so to a good Dutch custom: A blissful ending of the year, and a happy new year.

And to a New Year's posting I did at the end of 2018, she commented:

I raise my glass to this cap and the New Year. It always raises my spirits when I know I touched someone on some way, even if it is with something small.

For each and every visitor, commenter, and fellow captioner, I wish you "Zalig uiteinde!!" 

I did one more AI video. Hope you like it!