An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made, not the elimination of it.

The only thing I have to wait for to change my life is my attitude.

The road ahead is not some predetermined path that I am forced to trod, but it is a rich byway that I can help create.

An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made out of my past, not the elimination of that mess.

Although I’ve been thoroughly conditioned by pain to see it otherwise, an ending is nothing more than the backside of a beginning.

Another fresh new year is here . . .
Another year to live!
To banish worry, doubt, and fear,
To love and laugh and give!

This bright new year is given me
To live each day with zest . . .
To daily grow and try to be
My highest and my best!

I have the opportunity
Once more to right some wrongs,
To pray for peace, to plant a tree,
And sing more joyful songs!