Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending.
—Chico Xavier
Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is an image from Pixabay.
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Kaleidoscope #134
Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right.
–Oprah Winfrey
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a gorgeous sunset taken outside of Mesa, Arizona in November, 2008 at my grandparents’ 50th anniversary party. If you look closely, you can make out saguaro cacti. A simple snap from my Kodak Share camera.
Kaleidoscope #133
Tonight’s December thirty-first, Something is about to burst. The clock is crouching, dark and small, Like a time bomb in the hall. Hark, it’s midnight, children dear. Duck! Here comes another year!
–Ogden Nash, Collected verse from 1929 on
Below is the original photo used to create this image. All I can say, is sometimes you have to look down to see a rainbow.. I caught this oil-slick rainbow at dusk after a rain just outside my office building with no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Kaleidoscope #132
Of all sound of all bells… most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year.
–Charles Lamb
Below is the original photo used to create this image. This one came out of the archive. It’s a stormy Atlantic Ocean from a trip to Nags Head, North Carolina in the late 90’s. I had one of those awesome film cameras that took panoramic shots. Film negative saved to CD.
Kaleidoscope #131
And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.
–Rainer Maria Rilke
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a gorgeous sunset taken outside of Mesa, Arizona in November, 2008 at my grandparents’ 50th anniversary party. If you look closely, you can make out saguaro cacti. A simple snap from my Kodak Share camera.
Kaleidoscope #130
Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.
–Benjamin Franklin
Below is the original photo used to create this image. This is an image from Pixabay.
Kaleidoscope #129
Hope, Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’…
–Alfred Tennyson
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a bush from the front of my house that has its winter berries going on. Taken on an bright morning with no special lighting or retouching, just a snap from my smart phone.
Kaleidoscope #128
Hope, Smiles from the threshold of the year to come, Whispering ‘it will be happier’…
–Alfred Tennyson
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a close-up of the holiday wreath on my front door. No special lighting or effects, just a snap from my smartphone.
Kaleidoscope #127
He sprung to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew, like the down of a thistle:
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight—
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good night!”
Verse for this version of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” found on Wikipedia.
Below is the original photo used to create this image. My strongest Christmas memories center around the box of presents and treats my grandparents would send from Arizona. My Gramma loved to shop flea markets and there would always be a cute, handmade ornament. My Gramma is still going strong but she can’t do all the baking and shopping anymore. I’ve held on to these treasures, and I gathered them all together to take a simple snap from my smartphone. I added a touch of brightness in Photoshop.
Kaleidoscope #126
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And fill’d all the stockings; then turn’d with a jerk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose.
Verse for this version of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” found on Wikipedia.
Below is the original photo used to create this image. It’s a pic of my Christmas tree from 2015. No special lighting or effects, just a snap from my Kodak Share digital camera.
D.M. Sessous: writer, artist & dreamer 