0:00 who are you and where are you going what do you [Music] want hello and welcome to this special edition of the way to wow shows on January 1st 2025 starting out the new year right uh with uh a a show talking about the history of New Year's Day and and and
0:35 with some inspiration uh for the coming year so uh had had a a few days off from uh from doing shows the last week um but it's it's nice to be back and um I hope you had a wonderful holidays especially to um all all my uh Christian friends and viewers out there hope you had a very happy Christmas and um and now it's it's New Year's Day um again New Year 2025 and off we go and whatever this year uh might hold for us uh I don't
1:12 know about you but um over the LA the preceding month I took a a you know close look at what happened and made uh plans for this year and um I'm optimistic that um it's it's going to be a good year I'm I'm hoping that some longstanding uh challenges are finally going to wrap up we'll see um how Cooperative other people are in in in that part of things um but but nevertheless uh uh like I said you know feeling optimistic I have my my black watch tie on um to this this morning um and uh you know a nice warm
1:51 uh cotton and wool shirt because it's been on the chili site here in La although it's going to be it's getting warmer today and tomorrow so uh so I said I wanted to start out by talking about the history of of New Year's Day I think it's we sort of take it for granted well January 1 it's first day of the new year so you know that that must you know that makes sense right and and yes of of course it does uh one second here see here it is the first show of the year and I've already forgotten to close my email so in fact um having a New Year's Day
2:28 celebration is is perhaps one of the oldest uh holidays um that that that has ever existed and of course the term holiday comes from the term holy day so it was a day of Celebration um you know in in ancient times um there really wasn't such a thing as as a a secular you know New Year's Day New Year's was tied to whatever um cult cultural and religious observances um a particular uh group of
3:05 people I don't even want to say country because that's really not an apt term for uh for such times but um the earliest recorded New Year celebrations go all the way back to Babylonia Circa about 2000 BCE so we're we're going back now more than 4,000 years ago um in Mesopotamia and the Babylonians marked the Spring Equinox so the Equinox is the Spring Equinox is one of two times during the year when um the
3:40 the the length of the day portion and the night portion of the year are the same meaning 12 hours each now if you're on the equ uh if you live on the equator you have an equinox every day but once you move off the equator um there's only two days of the year when that happens spring equinox and the autumnal ex Equinox the the Autumn Equinox um and and they happen around the 20th well the Spring Equinox happens around the 20th of March it 20 21 22 right around in there and and in in Babylonia there was
4:17 an 11-day festival called akitu um and it basically celebrated renewal and and and planting um getting started with the you know the up coming agricultural cycle so then you know I'm going to talk about some religious traditions in a minute but um our modernday um New Year actually comes from Rome so not Rome the city but Rome in in the sense of the Roman
4:53 Empire um and originally Rome uh celebrated New Year's day on March 15th and and you'll see a connection to some other traditions in a minute but it was later shifted to January 1 by Julius Caesar in 46 BCE okay and when and Julius Caesar he reformed the calendar so um the month of January is named after the Roman God Janus which is the god of beginnings and
5:28 Transitions and and um if you've ever seen an image of Janis it's it's got a head that that sort of a double-sided head that's looking back and looking forward um and and so um Julius Caesar established the Julian calendar named after him um making January 1 uh the start of the year now during the Middle Ages when a after Rome had had fallen and and and eventually not eventually
6:03 but it became the Holy Roman Empire right so Christianity in essence took over Rome so January 1 was deemphasized as New Year's Day in favor of different days including March 25th which was the Feast of the enunciation and and December 25th which became which was Christmas but Pope Gregory I 13 created the the Gregorian calendar in 1582 and this restored January 1st as
6:38 the as the New Year's Day and the the Gregorian calendar was based on the solar year so the 365 day year really now of course the solar year isn't 365 days it's actually 365 and a quarter days okay that's why we have a leap year every four years um in the in the what we now call the secular calendar but indeed the secular calendar really comes from Pope Gregory
7:13 and so the celebration of New Year's Day Today on January 1 comes from Roman Catholic uh U practice um so which is kind of interesting because the United States originally was a a Protestant dominant country and in fact England once it broke once Henry VII broke away from the Roman Catholic Church was a Protestant country as well however um Protestants um in general as
7:49 as far as I know uh retained the Gregorian calendar and so Protestant practice essentially followed in the footsteps of Roman Catholic practice now you'll see that's not universally true in in you know Christendom so looking at now some religious traditions of of New Year's Day so um the oldest western religion is is Judaism a faith that I'm familiar with as I'm as as any of you who watched the show knows and and in
8:24 fact in the Hebrew calendar there are four New Year's Day now most um most Jews don't actually know that um and um non-jews um for the most part don't know that either most Jews and non-jews look at New Year's Day as being what's called rosashana or Ros rosashana which literally means head of the year so ro means head and shaah means year and it's
9:02 celebrated on the first day of tshr um generally in September or generally in September I don't think it's ever I don't think the first of Tay has ever actually uh well actually no it does un occasionally go into very early October in fact it did this year now that I'm thinking about it so this is the the the only well-known uh Jew New Year now rosashana celebrates the anniversary of the creation of the world so uh we're
9:39 this year we're in uh 57 gosh um let's see 57 I want to say 5785 maybe um in in and for for people who believe in the in a literal and for Jews who believe in a literal interpretation of the Genesis story um they believe that the world was created 5,7 I believe 85 years ago um now that of course that doesn't comport
10:16 with you know what science looks at that the world the universe is you know billions and billions of years old um however there are many people who believe that um were that the the Jewish year dates from when creation was completed okay so all of those billions of years of the world being created happened before the the essentially the seventh day of the creation story and by
10:51 the seventh day of the creation Story the world was not only fully formed but the first human being with a soul emerged and so then we started counting the actual years in the sense of a 365 day year now one of the things about the the Hebrew calendar is it's a solar based I'm sorry it's a lunar-based calendar okay so um the the Hebrew year is roughly 360 days long not 365 and as a result every I believe it's
11:29 nine out of 17 years there's a leap year in which a 13th month is added into the year and that's done in order that an another one of the New Year's days which is the first of Nissan will always happen in the springtime okay more specifically it's so that the holiday celebrated in Nissan on the 15th of Nissan Passover what's better known as pesak happens in the springtime according to um you know what how the holiday is described in the
12:04 Torah so the first of Nissan is the new year for the reign of monarchs Jewish monarchs but it's also the new year for Fest for the festival calendar so in Judaism there are three what are the the shal regalim um which literally means the three the three feet but it means the the three pilgrimage festivals which are Passover pesak shivu and sukus okay so the calendar of those
12:42 festivals actually uh dates based on when the first of Nissan occurs okay so that's a second New Year's Day in the Jewish calendar and then there's another holiday called tubish vat okay literally tubish vat literally means means the 15th of shabat Shabbat is the month in which it happens which is usually around January February and there are no numbers in in Judaism the Hebrew letters are used as numbers and so uh
13:19 two um uh it's compo it's comprised of the Hebrew letters Tess and V Tess has the uh numerical equivalent of nine V has the numerical equivalent of six and so together that makes 15 so tubish vad is the 15th day of shvat and it celebrates it's called the new year of the trees as a kid I never quite understood why was there a new year for trees and it's because there are certain practices with respect to um tree based agriculture
13:57 that have to be observed based on for example when fruit can be harvested so the first um three years of a tree's existence um one is not allowed to harvest the fruit and eat it so the tree has to be four years old in order for the fruit to be eaten and but it's not for actual years it's the tree has to pass four tubish vots or a fourth tubish vot in and then the and then the fruit becomes it becomes what's called RAV the fourth
14:33 year and and there's a certain um uh ritual concerned with riss and then after that the the the fruit is is good to go so tubish vat again in in January or February is the new year of the trees by the way uh the first of Nissan generally happens in March or April okay and then the fourth um New Year in the Hebrew calendar is the first of el so the first of el is to animals what tubish vat is to trees so again certain
15:11 animals are have to be a certain age to be qualified for certain sacrifices that were brought in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem um and and and and they have to be tithed Etc and so the first of L was the new year uh for animal tithes okay so you can see in the four New Years there are a different aspects of of of Jewish life and and each one of them relates to a a particular aspect you can also see that in the first of Nissan there was a predecessor to the Roman practice of New
15:50 Year New Year's happening on the 15th of March the Ides of March by the way okay so um and by the way um the the New Year in in ancient Egypt was also um tied to the Nile River it was also I believe in March um if if memory is served so um you have all those different New Year's traditions coming out of Judaism okay notice none of them um are the equivalent of of January 1 um here you know which which is you know the new the
16:26 SEC what we call secular New Year's Day okay okay now I mentioned that January 1st is not universally recognized as New Year's Day in Christianity so Orthodox Christians celebrate um New Year's Day according to the Julian calendar okay on January 14th well on January 1 in the Julian calendar but January 14th in the Gregorian calendar I.E the calendar that we follow here in uh the United States
17:03 so um Orthodox New Year or old new year as it's sometimes called um is celebrated in countries that um historically were um uh followed Orthodox Christian tradition such as Russia Serbia Macedonia Ukraine Georgia um you know I didn't look this up I wish I had now because of course the C the the Christian church in Greece was the GRE Orthodox church so um perhaps in in Greece New Year's Day is is celebrated on the 14th of of January I can't say for sure um when I was a chaplain
17:40 stationed in okanawa we had an Orthodox Christian priest and indeed New Year's day was celebrated basically a couple weeks after secular New Year's um and now the way it's celebrated in the Orthodox Church is very different you know we look at New Year's Day we're popping champagne the night before it's a big party and all this kind of stuff of course Orthodox Christian New Year is a is a religious celebration it's tied to practices like prayer and and and and
18:15 those kinds of things and in fact the same is true of all the Jewish New Years as well um you know Russia Shana for example is marked by by prayer it's it's a happy time but there's a solemnity to it because there's a judgment going on um between Russia Shana and the festival 10 days later which is Yum kipor Yum Kipper um and so the the the way um uh religious New Year's days and you know secular New Years here in the United States are
18:50 celebrated very very very different okay um hang on one sec just going to send a me a message to to uh uh to one of one of my uh viewers and okay now um now so then moving on to um the um Muslim tradition so um Muslims celebrate New Year's Day according to the Islamic to the Islamic calendar now like the Jewish calendar
19:25 the Islamic calendar is a lunar-based calendar not a solar based calendar and that's why for example Ramadan can happen any time during the the the secular year because since the year is basically about 360 days long each year each each Islamic year essentially starts five days earlier and so um Islamic festivals sort of rotate through the secular year unlike Judaism
20:00 they don't have as far as I know a leap year so that the solar and lunar Calenders will stay roughly in sync um that that's not a part of of how um Islam Works um and so um the Islamic New Year which is known I'm going to read it here because I I'll get it I'm probably gonna mangle it anyway with with my apologies if I do so so it's it's it's called um uh uh hijri hijri New Year or Ros alsana Al hijri I'm hop hopefully
20:37 I'm I'm saying that you know roughly correctly I I don't know Arabic um and um it marks the beginning of the month of muharam um which is the first month of the Islamic calendar um and um so um I already mentioned about how you know uh the the um the um Muslim calendar um uh you know is is shorter the Muslim year is shorter than the solar year and so the the the festival the New Year
21:12 sort of rotates through the secular year um and the um Islamic calendar starts with the Hijra which is the migration of the promet Muhammed from Mecca to Medina in 622 CE which marks the the the founding of the first Islamic community and um muharam is the first month it's a sacred month in in Islam okay um and similar to um Jewish and Orthodox Christian practice and in fact Roman
21:49 Catholic practice as well um because in in Roman Catholicism New Year's Day is is a uh is a a festival day marked with prayer Etc so um Islamic New Year's is marked by prayer Reflections spiritual Gatherings okay and so it it is a um a a religious Festival now um for 20124 okay the the year just ended um Islamic New Year actually occurred on July 8th of 2024 okay so that shows you
22:26 how it Cycles through the years okay so some uh nonwestern Faith Traditions okay Islam is kind of the transition right because it's um it's it's somewhat of a western Faith but it's also a a middle eastern and South Asian Faith that's now spread worldwide so Hindus um which live um there's obviously the largest Hindu population is in India but there are Hindus throughout the world so um I counted fully seven seven different
23:02 Hindu practices on New Year's Day so it's you know the Hindu faith is very diverse um just like uh just like Christianity even and and and you know to a lesser extent Islam and Judaism so depending on uh what region of the world Hindus live in which particular um tradition of of Hinduism they follow um there there is a different practice in terms of which uh New Year's Day um uh they they follow but in general they uh
23:40 New Year's Day uh either happens in March or March and April or around what's called Diwali in the fall okay so those those are the um that's that's you know briefly Hindu practice um in terms of Buddhists so there are basically four um um Buddhist um practices which which with regard um to to New Year's Day and I'm going to mangle these names again again my
24:15 apologies there is the um theravada Buddhist um which which happens in April there's the Mahayana Buddhist which uh celebrates a Lunar New Year in February uh there's Tibetan Buddhists which uh celebrate in February what's called losar and japanes Japanese Buddhists celebrate uh New Year's Day on January 1 right so now I mentioned the uh Mahayana Buddhists um having a Lunar New Year you
24:51 may say oh well that must be the same thing as Chinese New Year no that's actually um not the case while there are some similarities to Chinese New Year um and and and and Buddhist practices um the Chinese New Year is really a cultural and national celebration marking the beginning of the Lunar New Year and it's based on the Chinese lunar calendar um and it falls between January 21st and February 20th so in 2024 it was
25:27 on febru February 10th okay and it it it focuses on family reunions honoring ancestors ensuring Prosperity Good Fortune for the year ahead okay so it is um I wouldn't call it a religious Festival per se um but of but it is different than the secular New Years that that we celebrate here in the United States so in but you know for all of the secularism that I've talked about um many people look at you know New Year's Day as an opportunity to get a
26:04 fresh start um and in and in that way it's kind of like um um Jewish practice in the sense that uh Roshes Shana begins a 10day period of reflection and repentance that ends with yum kipur 10 days later and the the idea is that on yumore God has made a decision about how your life will be for the coming year and so during those what are called the
26:40 aeras Chua which is usually translated 10 days of repentance although it would be more accurate to call them the 10 days of return meaning return to a closer relationship with God right one is is examining um his behavior for the previous year making amends to to people for wrongs he's done them and uh and and then um you know praying for a good year um going forward a good and a sweet year
27:15 is usually um the the the typical uh greeting you'll hear that time of year among Jews so to to bring a bit of an aspect of that to to our new year for 2020 um I I looked up some sayings and short poems that I want to share with you that hopefully will inspire you to make two 2000 the year 2025 the best year that you've had so far not the best year you'll ever have
27:50 because hopefully 2026 will be better and 2027 will be better than that and so on um although we all know that some sometimes New Year don't bring better um but we can at least start out with with hope um and now I I will say I am not one who makes New Year's resolutions um they're not they notoriously do not stick there was a time when I made them I don't think I fulfilled one ever um I am however very big on on goal setting as as you may know if you if you're a frequent Watcher of the show you know I've I've done a
28:26 number of uh shows on setting goals I did one the end of last year um on Advanced goal setting and talking about um conditions of success which I think are even more important than goals because they're really that we're setting the standards by which we want to live our lives and working to become uh to to to handle Our Lives ever more closely to this these standards that we've set up as our um conditions of
29:01 success okay so hopefully these these sayings and short poems will inspire you to work ever harder at your conditions of success so hopefully you know you you you you created some conditions of success for this year and I'm Min are right here um although just this morning I did slightly modify um one of them so I'll be putting up my my new um my new uh um
29:36 graphic for my conditions of success and goals uh for 2025 I'll be doing that uh just in just a little while after the show is over um but um and and you can see I've got um I think I've got nine or 10 there and but you don't have to do that many I've been doing this a long long time so um you know I I I work to challenge myself but even if all you have are a couple of conditions for success for the coming year that's terrific so here we go with some some uh hopefully like I say inspiration for you
30:11 so the first one is Benjamin Franklin right the the great Benjamin Franklin one of the founding fathers of the United States and this is his advice on Beginnings okay so he says be at war with your vices at peace with your neighbors and let every New Year find you a better man I think so Benjamin Franklin was was known for writing Poor Richard's Almanac which was filled with this kind of very it seemingly piffy but
30:47 actually very very deep advice for us to take in and really really think about you know how how can I make this a part of my life so I think this I'm going to read read this again because I just think it's so good be at war with your vices right the things we're doing that are wrong at peace with your neighbors and I think he doesn't mean literally just your neighbors the people who live next door to you but neighbors both in your community in your country in the world and let every New Year find you a
31:24 better man that's the goal right to get better okay I got sorry excuse me okay so that's Benjamin Franklin um next is a a uh short uh prayer for the New Year by Alfred Lord Tennyson okay the famous uh English poet and he says uh a simple a simple hopeful invocation let us with a gladsome mind praise the Lord for he is kind for his
32:00 mercies I Endure ever faithful ever sure so this is I think especially for those of us who live um religious lives this is a wonderful very simple prayer that can that can really help us focus in the coming year right so let us with a gladsome mind right with a a mind of gladness of happiness praise the Lord for he is kind for his mercies I Endure always endure ever
32:35 faithful ever sure it's it's very easy and I know I do this to get into the thinking that when something bad has happened to me that you know God has abandoned me doesn't care about me he's punishing me and and that's that's not true um like a loving parent God wants me he wants all of his children to be better and sometimes in order to help us find a path to being better God has to bring difficulties into our
33:11 lives right so we struggle against them and we learn and we grow right so that that is Al Al Alfred Lord tennison's prayer for us okay next is a proverb a proverb from Ecclesiastes which is of course in the writings portion of the Hebrew Bible as well as the Christian Bible okay and it says whatever your hand finds to do do it with all your might okay so you know a a half-hearted
33:47 effort is not going to bring you success in this world if it's worth doing it's worth doing right it's worth doing with enthusiasm and if you find that you you have a laxidasical attitude toward a task maybe it's time to examine is this a task I really should be or need to be or or really should be or want to be doing maybe it's something that's not a very good thing to be doing and and
34:22 that's why you're kind of going I don't know if I really want to do this I'm not so excited about this okay okay now let me say by the way that uh a couple of days ago I was invited to a party from a longstanding friends of mine and as I'm getting dressed and ready to go to the party I'm doing my typical thing which is I'm thinking oh I gotta go to a party I gotta drive there and this and that and and all of that and I always think that before going to a party and of course once I got there I had a wonderful time met some very nice people
34:58 I hadn't met before saw some people I hadn't seen for a couple of years the last time I was I was able to attend the party and and and and and left the party feeling just really great got a big hug from my host before I left some he's such such a sweet sweet guy um you know an in an inspiring man um he and his wife have been married for decades um and it's it's it's it's really a a pleasure to watch them interact um and and to see how genuinely um he he uh my friend Bruce
35:37 really loves his wife Terry it really was a a special moment uh to see them together and um so so one of the things I was aware of doing is making is taking an extra you know minute to am I dressed appropriately for this event so that um I'm not uh so that I'm showing proper honor to my host and Hostess um and and and and that sort of thing so you know I'm I'm not saying that every time you're feeling reluctant to do a task it's not something you should do um
36:14 sometimes it is something that we should do and and so if we're feeling reluctance we need to understand why and nonetheless make the effort right whatever your hand finds to do do it with all your might okay the next is a short poem um by Elanor Faron I believe it's pronounced called mour has broken now if you are of my vintage this is going to sound familiar I'm not going to tell you why in the beginning because I want you to hear it and see if you can guess it um before I tell you okay but
36:50 here here's here's her poem Morning Has Broken Morning Has Broken like the first morning Blackbird has spoken like the first bird praise for the singing Praise for the morning praise for them springing fresh from the word now it it has an almost hym likee quality um and obviously it's talking about renewal and Fresh Starts which is a great theme for for New Year's Day for January 1 now uh again this this hopefully this sounds
37:27 famili Amil especially if you if you are a music offici andado like I am now Morning Has Broken like the first [Music] morning okay I know I'm not a good singer don't don't worry you're you you're not insulting me if you're just thinking to yourself oh please stop okay I'm stopping um but that's the tune to which a very popular and well-known singer in the 19 70s sang this particular poem and that singer's name
38:03 was Cat Stevens right and and and it was uh this was one a very popular song by Cat Stevens and he borrowed the the the poem uh from Elanor Faron so so if if if you're looking for something to uh inspire you for 2025 maybe break out uh if you have old Cat Stevens records I know he he eventually um converted to Islam and he he um he took on um an a Muslim uh name and I I don't remember what that name is I want to say Yousef
38:40 um but I I I could be wrong but but it but this is Cat Stevens before he had his religious uh conversion and this the song is is a great song for for New Year's Day okay so I've got two more for you uh one is another short poem um this one by Emily Dickinson so you may not have heard of Elanor Faron but um you you you may you probably have heard of Emily Dickinson one of the best known Poets of of all time okay and this poem is called on the threshold okay so
39:16 we never know how high we are till we are called to rise and then if we are true to plan our statures touch the sky eyes I just think that's so profound right we I think the one of the hardest things in our lives to do is to see ourselves accurately I think we either put ourselves down and underrate ourselves too much or we overrate ourselves and
39:53 and are uh guilty if you will of of hubris so to have that that balanced perception of ourselves is is a constant uh battle for us I don't want to say battle but a constant challenge for us okay but the the idea behind um Emily Dickinson's poem is to understand I think our potential right so we never know how high we are till we are called to rise
40:28 and then if we are true to plan our statures touch the skies right so this is I think a call to for us to challenge ourselves to take on hard tasks and to see how well we can meet those challenges okay because we may not go as high as we hoped but we're probably going to be we're probably gonna get much closer to touching the sky than we may think okay the last one is a quote from Gerta the
41:03 famous uh jur German writer and philosopher um and it's called begin again okay uh and and and this is a this is a salute to my very longstanding friend uh Louis Fantasia who was actually awarded a medal by the um German government for his work in help helping people better understand Gerta and and um his writings and philosophies can you imagine being uh decorated by a country uh for for doing something like
41:40 that so that's that's Louie sometimes when I see him he's he'll he'll wear the metal pinned on the lapel of his jacket and and and and good for Louie so this is uh this is Born Again by Gera uh whatever you can do or dream you can uh I'm sorry whatever you can do or dream you can begin it boldness has genius power and magic in it begin it now okay and and and this is the quote I want to end on the show on because this
42:18 is hopefully beyond all the celebration and maybe you're having a little bit of a hangover from you know too much champagne last night the is what this is the the the blessing I hope we can all enjoy for the year ahead where whatever you can do or dream you can begin it just get started with it boldness has genius power and magic in it begin it now okay don't worry if you aren't sure
42:54 whether you can do it don't worry if you think maybe I don't have the resources to do this the money the time don't don't worry if if you delay starting until you have the right circumstances or worse yet the perfect circumstances you will never start you will never begin boldness has genius so be bold this
43:31 year understand your conditions of success and be bold and getting started working toward them so I thank you so much for joining me today uh this this the first of the way to wow shows for 2025 Wish You a New Year for you and your loved ones of good health of prosperity I hope to see you often I hope that these shows will be a source to help you live the life that
44:06 you want to live that's what the way to wow shows about um uh what are you um and uh all a I went up on on wow um um where are you where are you going um anyway you saw it in you saw it in the intro so I i' I I I killed my profound ending oh well so be it um but I I I hope that um these shows will help you throughout the year if you have challenges um reach out let me know
44:41 about them and perhaps I can do a show on a topic that will help you address that challenge okay if there's something that I can help you with do you have questions comments you can always drop them in our social media um the answer answer I give if if it's within my area of expertise could possibly benefit other people if it's something private you can always uh email me my email address will be in the show notes as well so I wish you a wonderful rest of the day tomorrow is my every other week's show jigger's place okay and it's at 5:00 pm
45:19 Pacific time and we're going to be talking about starting the year off right uh with okay start with um the the three things to focus on for good physical health okay and by the way I think good mental and spiritual health will come as well from focusing on these so we'll have a cocktail again start the year off right in the afternoon and we'll be
45:54 together again so I hope you'll join me tomorrow at jigger's place i' I've remodeled jigger's place a little bit so you you know if you want to see that you'll definitely have to tune in 5m Pacific time and then next week we'll be back to our regular schedule 10: amm Pacific Time Monday is my show trusts and Estates weekly and I think I have a guest yes my guest is uh Craig redler and he's going to be talking about cook Island trust this is a this is a particular type type of asset planning uh protection planning that Craig
46:30 specializes in so I hope you will join me for that and then on Tuesday at 10: a.m. Pacific time I'm going to be talking about lessons we can learn from the Battle of New Orleans okay which was a battle in the War of 1812 so do tune in and then we'll be back a week from today for the next edition of well for the first this year's first edition of uh people making money so again wishing you a wonderful rest of the day and uh hopefully um you will be able to enjoy it with family and friends and
47:06 signing off as I always do Marie darling you are my bell courage courage with boldness boldness takes courage courage at all times my friends