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

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Thank you.

[ext_1282957]

My best wishes to you. I like your post.

Re: Thank you.

[ladycatherina]

You're welcome, wishing you a wonderful New Year!

[sunlit_music]

Wishing you a belated Happy New Year! :) Good choice of songs.

Also - congratulations on President Obama getting re-elected! Congratulations on these other firsts (which I discovered from gehayi's amazing post http://gehayi.livejournal.com/486845.html ):

- Al McAffrey became Oklahoma's first openly gay state senator.
- Tammy Duckworth became the first disabled woman veteran elected to Congress and the first Asian-American woman elected to the House of Representatives from Illinois.

- Mazie Keiko Hirono being:

a) the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate in Hawaii;
b) the first Asian-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate

[bohemianvegan]

Thank you for posting!

[bohemianvegan]

These songs are great! This is a good list!