New Year Toast

We drink to your coffin. May it be built from the wood of a hundred year old oak tree that I shall plant tomorrow.

A New Year Wish

To honor those who are gone for we hold their memory.
To cherish those who love us for they give us strength.
To follow your heart for it is the path of happiness.
To see through the eyes of a child for you will live forever.

To give of yourself to the world for it will free your soul.
To weep for those without hope for they will teach you.
To leave a legacy for the world shall remember you.
To live a life of urgency for our time is short.

To seek comfort in family for they connect our past.
To plant a tree for it shall grow for hundreds of years.
To inspire a dream in a child for they are our future.
To banish fear from our hearts for it clouds our mind.

To breathe every breath deeply for it might be our last.
To know the world a better place for you made it so.
To pause at the sight of beauty for it surrounds us.
To love unconditionally for it is the reason we exist.