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New Year's recipe - Carlos Drummond de Andrade

December 31, 2008

If you want to have a beautiful New Year

If you want to have a beautiful New Year The color of the rainbow or the color of your peace, A New Year beyond comparing to all the time you've already lived, (lived badly perhaps or senselessly) If you want to have a year Not freshly painted with everything back on the right track, But new in the feelings of coming to be; New Down to the heart of the things you are least aware of (to begin with what's inside you) New, spontaneous, you don't find it to be so perfect, But with it you eat, you walk, You love, you understand, you work. You don't need to drink champagne or any other drink, You don't need to go on visits or receive cards (You plan to receive cards? Send telegrams?)

You don't need To make a list of good resolutions To file in your bureau drawer. You don't need to cry with regret Over foolish things you've already done Or to half believe That by the decree of hope From January onward things will change And everything will be brightness, reward, Justice among men and nations Freedom with the fragrance and taste of morning bread, Your rights being respected, beginning With the sacred right to live.

To have a New Year Which deserves that name You, my friend, have to deserve it, You have to make it new, I know that it's not easy, But try, experiment, be conscious. It's inside of you that the New Year Has always been dormant and waiting.

PS- Drummond is my favorite poet…the things he wrote helped me many times to find my way.
We have to find that, it's within us, and only each individual can know what that right path is to his new beginning

The truth has always been within us – we just have to seek and we will find.

Believe.

Love you, guys.

Dani

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      Posted 8 months ago by maria

      Hi Dani It's me Maria, I just stopped by on the criss site and I seen your message, just stopped by to say Hello my sweet friend. Hope to hear from you

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      Posted 11 months ago by maria

      Hi Dani, I hope that you and your family had a wonderful New Year and a safe one, I hope that you wil;l send me your email so we can keep in touch with one another I wish you all the best. I hope to hear from you soon. Peace and Love Maria

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      Posted 11 months ago by DayDreamer

      Lovely words! have never heard of this poet. And now I'll go and find more things about him. Could you tell me what are the poems you like most so I go and check those first.