Happy New Year!

[JDMeans@xxxxxxx]

Hey everyone!

I'd like to wish you and yours a happy new year. And there's a favorite song 
by the band Counting Crows that comes to mind on New Year's Eve, especially 
this year.

"A Long December"

A long December and there's reason to believe 
Maybe this year will be better than the last
I can't remember the last thing that you said as you were leaven' 
Now the days go by so fast

And it's one more day up in the canyons 
And it's one more night in Hollywood
If you think that I could be forgiven...I wish you would 

The smell of hospitals in winter 
And the feeling that it's all a lot of oysters, but no pearls
All at once you look across a crowded room
To see the way that light attaches to a girl 

And it's one more day up in the canyons
And it's one more night in Hollywood 
If you think you might come to California...I think you should 

Drove up to Hillside Manor sometime after two a.m. 
And talked a little while about the year 
I guess the winter makes you laugh a little slower,
Makes you talk a little lower about the things you could not show her 
And it's been a long December and there's reason to believe 
Maybe this year will be better than the last 
I can't remember all the times I tried to tell my myself 
To hold on to these moments as they pass 

And it's one more day up in the canyon 
And it's one more night in Hollywood 
It's been so long since I've seen the ocean...I guess I should 

Happy New Year,
Kirayoshi


"Once, years ago, I saved the life of a wise old priest. 
Grateful, he made a gift to me of these few precious words: 
If you find yourself on a cliffside, trapped, 
with a hungry tiger waiting above 
and a hungry tiger waiting below, 
and by chance you spy a single strawberry 
growing from the cliffside... 
pluck the strawberry... 
and bite into it... 
and taste it." 
--Frank Miller 
"Ronin"