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Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Lunar New Year 2025
Tomorrow is Chinese Lunar New Year, or Year of the Snake. Enclosed is a Google Doodle of Lunar New Year. Notice on the left side of the doodle. Inside the “red” square is the Chinese word for “fortune”. It is, however, placed upside down. The euphemism is “fortune comes down or showers from heaven to the recipient. Therefore, the word is placed upside down to represent such good wish(s) for the New Year. Also, the lit firecrackers are to chase away the bad omens or demons. So, it is placed below the upside down word “fortune(s)”. By the way, there are no plurals in Chinese words, so “fortune” and “fortunes” uses the same singular word. The long and short for the entire symbolism is translated something like “may good fortune(s) always shower down and envelope you.”
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Thursday, January 02, 2025
A New Year Poem
With grateful hearts the past we own; The future, all to us unknown, We to Thy guardian care commit, And peaceful leave before Thy feet. Philip Doddridge (1702 - 1751)
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