this is going to be a great year because?

I don't know about "is going to be" Nathen,
I only know that it CAN be..because it's new....
"Won't you help to sing, these songs of freedom, is all I (we) ever had, redemption songs, songs of freedom, songs of freedom, songs of freedom.... redemption songs..."
B Marley

or, in the words of a future cultural leader...
"Yea , you gotta sing, all the time,
you gotta find yourself a little song and sing it all day long..."
Sarah Lee Guthrie

#1. step-sons maintained a full time job!
#2. Sue still hasn't thrown me out.
#3. That much closer on the mansion on the hill
#4. Mother in law made it thru Xmas (altho visiting her in the hospital wasn't as fun as home
#5. Friends like Dr. Dee that send me jokes, to cheer me up
6. My cat Zabrina
7. The BBC and it's herding cats phenomenon
8. The music that HAS to be better than 2001
9. Plan on going to the church come spring
10. If I don't make it in the spring, I'll be there in the Fall. The Autumn colors are best... Fitzy are you gonna let me burn up some of your plastic????

**If it weren't for Fitzy I'd of slept in the car....<img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/laugh.gif" width=15 height=15>

Did ya'll see Randy Cormier on TV last night?

Because it's not 2001?

can you just see 100,000 people having good thoughts and cheering one another on, a new season of love, it's here if you want it to be.....

The new year is ours, we only have to decide that it is going to be better and then share the news with others, hell there are a lot of old hippies that done it once and dog gone it we can do it again.

I thought that looked like Randy! <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/smile.gif" width=15 height=15>

because 2002 is the same comin' and goin'??

(actually, I liked pat's answer, but she got there first!)

What Pat said.

Also because

• It seems Blunderites and Guthries are growing in leaps and bounds.

• Old hippies are finally finding each other on the Internet. We're slow but we're good. <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/cool.gif" width=15 height=15>

• We've reclaimed the flag from the right-wingers; it again belongs to all Americans.

• The world is going to get the sonofabitch this year, and his little dog,* too!

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*"Little dog" is not really a dog, it's all the networks he controls.

because...I think everyone wants to try a little bit harder to connect and help each other after the attacks of last fall.

Hi - I am making good on a New Year's resolution to introduce myself. VERY shy as a rule, but I enjoy hanging out here so much that I decided it was time to stop being a voyeur and participate! I am in my 30's and stay at home with my kids (5 of 'em). I used to see Arlo and Pete at Wolftrap in Vienna, VA as a kid. We'd sit on the lawn - good times. My parents were fans, so we'd go everytime they were there. Just found the site this fall after seeing Arlo at Pitman, NJ. I am definitely "weird", at least that's what my friends tell me. My kids think I'm a hippie, and if you can be a 30-something hippie, well that's what I am, I guess. And like 2002, anna is also the same comin' and goin' -- so I'm thinking that's a good sign. Peace.

Hi, Anna, good to meet you. No need to be shy around here, as you've probably seen. Wow, five kids! Brave woman.<img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/angel.gif" width=25 height=20>

Glad you decided to break the ice and introduce yourself, Anna. Welcome to the fray!
And don't worry about anyone thinking you're weird because you're a hippie. It kinda' goes with the territory. Why, if no one thinks you're being weird, you probably aren't doing it right... <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/wink.gif" width=15 height=15>

Besides, if you were "normal", you wouldn't be here in the first place! <img src="http://www.arlo.net/ubb/smilies/smile.gif" width=15 height=15>

WOW, 2002 is off to a good start, Anna, welcome, this is a good place to be and now if you will take a moment to hug each of your kids and tell them they are loved, we can get summer of love thing started, I myself, just try to say a few kind words to everyone I meet, but maybe saturday after my bath I too might try to hug someone.

a sad note... Buddy died, yeasterday... along with Chelsea, the most honest, forthright Clinton