Happy New Year!

[ladycatherina]

Happy New Year everyone! This is the truly democratic, inclusive holiday...other events this month seem focused on celebrating what some people possess and others don't (money, gifts, a particular faith, family, friends, etc) while everyone gets another year. You can be wealthy with fifteen swimming pools, middle-class, homeless, a student, a traveling bohemian or hippie or hipster or yuppie or tribesperson in sub-Saharan Africa, the greatest saint or the worst criminal or somewhere in between, or an ant or redwood tree or a rock or a Martian. And you still get a chance to forgive and move forward from the past and celebrate the possibility for good, creativity, new possibilities and all kinds of interesting stuff in the upcoming, unpredictable future.

Happy New Year...some songs for everyone's pleasure. Not everyone's tastes, sorry...but the lyrics are meaningful to me in some way.

Katy Perry's Firework: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TI18KxwbMk

PInk's Raise Your Glass: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHtms9voyEg

Black Eyed Peas' Gotta Feeling: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tiPAvmy3eA

Wallflowers' One Headlight: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzIasfqlO1k

Sarah Brightman's War Is Over Now: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikqY56XEbkw

Josh Groban's tribute to Vincent Van Gogh: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsJzFwGVF5c

Andrea Bocelli's I Believe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G_ycWN9vg6Q

Gigi's Utopia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp3EuCCcjdg

Gypsy Devils Orchestra: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MS0tGDsMqs

Falling Slowly, Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkFB8f8bzbY

Seasons of Love, from RENT: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hj7LRuusFqo

And of course, Kate Bush's Wuthering Heights, because this is the time of year that Heathcliff and Catherine find each other on the misty moors: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1pMMIe4hb4

And I Belong to the Earth, from the musical Wuthering Heights: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHluVYGYonM