Change -- New Year's Day?

A. Unabashed Pacifist:

It looks as if we’re taking the red-eye flight to peace.

B. Unabashed Christian:

Holy One,

Of happy days, I’ve had thousands.
Of inspiring moments, I’ve had hundreds.
Of growing years, I’ve seen many.
Of pleasant hours, I’ve had an abundance.
Of painful times, I’ve had enough to keep me humble.
Of miraculous seconds, I can’t begin to calculate.
Thank you.
Amen

C. Un-quoting Jesus:

“John, you need to get that streaking impulse under control.”

[Somebody needed to say it, but there’s no record that He ever did.]

D. Blog: Speaking of New Year’s Day

We are so bound to Earth as our mother that we overlook the myriad ways she influences and supports us. New Year’s Day, for instance. We mark such a day, but give hardly a thought to its connection with Earth’s movement around our sun. But what sense does our Julian calendar make in this regard? Nothing sacred about it. Both Christmas Day and New Year’s seem quite arbitrary and disconnected to actuality. No one knows when Jesus was born, and the day following winter solstice seems much more logical as a choice to celebrate the beginning of a new year. Spock would find it all quite bewildering.