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Dear Readers,
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Mark Twain once said the following about New
Year: Now is the accepted time to make your 3 33 3
regular annual good resolutions. Next week From the SecretaryÊÊÊÊÊÊ's Desk
you can begin paving hell with them as usual.
Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, 4 44 4
took his last drink, and swore his last oath. In Memoriam
Today, we are a pious and exemplary
community. New Year's is a harmless annual 5 55 5
institution, of no particular use to anybody Damanhur, Italy
save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls, and
humbug resolutions, and we wish you to enjoy it with a looseness 6 66 6
suited to the greatness of the occasion. Emma Goldman Finishing
School, USA
I beg to differ, Mr. Twain. New Years is an excellent opportunity to
evaluate the wrongs and the rights of the past year, and resolve to 7 77 7
change things for the year ahead, both for yourself and for your Sieben Linden Ecovillage,
community. Germany

In my community, New Year is a time for reflection; a time to have 8 88 8
regrets and make apologies, a time to recognize accomplishments The Farm, USA
and say those thank you’s. Generally, I find that it is much easier to
be critical of ourselves as a community, and unappreciative of what 1 11 11 11 1
we are good at, so this year the focus is on strengths, both on an Kaleidoscope by Joel
individual level, and as a community. We are asking such questions Dorkam
as what strengths do we have (and what do others think we have!),
and can we use these elements to help us improve in areas in which 1 11 16 66 6
we feel lacking – again both as individuals and as a community. The Tribe of Likatien,
Germany
We even have a new year’s community book, where we note down
our personal and community resolutions. It is something we can refer 1 11 17 77 7
to year by year, to see how well we are doing and to what extent we Kibbutz Shorts
have followed through with our stated aims. We have even been
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known to print out the group resolutions, laminate them, and stick 1919
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them up where they can be seen, to remind us about what we have Eurotopia Directory
committed ourselves to!
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So, I shall leave it to Oscar Wilde, who this time gets the honour of Smangus, Taiwan
the final word, only because he could have been talking about Mark
Twain, when he said: What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of 244
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everything and the value of nothing. ZEGG, Germany

Write to me and let me know the news from your community. 2 22 25 55 5
East Wind, USA
Have a happy and healthy new year,
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and enjoy C.A.L.L., Maagal Hakvutsot, Israel

Anton
anton@kyovel.org
www.communa.org.il

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