happy #Nowruz 🌷🪷🌷🪷🌷🪷🌷🪷🌷🪷🪷🌷🪷🌷🪷🌷🪷🌸🌺🌸🌺🌸🌺🌸🌺🌸🌺🌸🌺 as a procrastinator extroidinaire, must say this is my most favorite #newYears2023 💗

solar calendar goes to 0 degrees & idk what it means, but i like it;)🌈

New Year’s Morning. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.

Early morning clouds and flocks of geese fill the sky above the California Central Valley on New Year’s Day morning, 2023.

We spent New Year’s Day in a wild place with friends, sharing food and stories, and photographing birds and the landscape in which they live. I can’t... (continues: https://gdanmitchell.com/2023/01/09/new-years-morning)

#birds #sky, clouds #newyearsday #newyears2023 #landscape #nature #wildlife #naturephotography #landscapephotography #photography

Cloudscape With Birds. © Copyright 2022 G Dan Mitchell.

Migratory birds fill the winter sky against a backdrop of clearing storm clouds.

Yes, it is a little bit difficult to see the birds in this photograph. (If you have the option, you may want to view it larger.) But in a way, that is kind of the point — to set the... (continued: https://gdanmitchell.com/2023/01/07/cloudscape-with-birds)

#birds #flight #clouds #sky #winter #nature #naturephotography #landscape #landscapephotography #photography #newyearsday #newyears2023

First #blog of the new year. #NewYears2023 #NYE #newyearresolution #newyearsresolutions #blogger #writingforaliving #writingcommmunity https://drunkbeth.wordpress.com/2023/01/03/new-year-a-fresh-start-within-the-same-parametors/

🎊🎉New Year’s Poetry🎊🎉

I’m sorry it’s a day late! I’m trying to remember all the social sites I am a part of. 🥴

I have also posted a link to my YouTube video in case you would like to hear this poem read. 😸

https://youtube.com/shorts/lFqokZctiLk?feature=share

#poetry #mentalhealth #poem #poems #mastowriters #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #NewYears2023 #newyear #writing #asmr

🎊🎉New Year Poetry🎊🎉

I’m sorry it’s a day late, trying to remember all the social sites I am apart of. 🥴

I have also posted a link to my YouTube video in case you would like to hear this poem read. 😸

https://youtube.com/shorts/lFqokZctiLk?feature=share

#poetry #mentalhealth #poem #poems #poetrylovers #writingcommunity #poetrycommunity #NewYears2023 #newyear #2023 #writing #asmr

Public Domain Day 2023! Enjoy!
https://www.ghoulishgrinfilms.com/2023/01/ring-in-2023-metropolis-ghoulish.html #publicdomain #publicdomainday #newyears #newyears2023 #metropolis #sciencefiction

Happy 2023! Protect all you love like a momma turkey would this year! #photography #amateurphotographer #nature #Fotomontag #turkey #polt #momma #mondaymotivation #animals #NewYears2023 #followback #twitterrefugees #foto #fotos #Photomonday #photos #photo

#arthur #arthurpbs #pbskids #newyearseve #happynewyear #2023 #newyears #newyearsday #newyears2023 #dw #dorawinifred #dorawinifredread #arthuranddw

Happy New Year!!! Sending love throughout the universe and wishing you 10,000 ways of good luck in 2023!!! -Zen Master Sebastian Rizzon #newyear #newyears2023 #cosmic #cosmicenergy #space #cosmos #heart #aiart #AI #aiartist #midjourney #stars #universe #zenartist #art #zenmaster #zenart #zen

The contemporary American progressive movement is as important as any political movement in our lifetime.

Become a PDA Sustaining Donor today: There’s No Better Way to Support the Progressive Movement!

#pda #progressive #Democrats #newyears2023

RT @MikeHudema@twitter.com

Seoul is putting #solarpanels on ALL public buildings & over one million homes. Time to speed it up. Who's next?

We have the solutions. Make 2023 the year we #ActOnClimate

#ClimateEmergency #climate #energy #renewables #renewableenergy #GreenNewDeal #NewYears2023

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/MikeHudema/status/1609404581049507840

Happy New Year everyone! #happynewyear #NewYears2023

#sunrise #ChesapeakeBay #newyears2023

First Human Encounter on New Year's Morning 2023: The Fireworks Idiot - a harbinger of the year to come?

My first encounter with a human in 2023 was not a pleasant one. New Year's morning dawned grey and foggy – so foggy I could not even see the little slice of the Danube I can usually see – and utterly quiet. It is never this way. I live in a metropolis, and a broad boulevard, the main route to all points west, separates my building from the high rent buildings along the riverbank. This boulevard provides a daily opportunity to play a real-life version of Crossy Road (six automobile lanes, one bus lane, two tram tracks), but otherwise it serves up unremitting noise pollution. Not this morning. I went out on to my balcony (fourth floor), served the crows, pigeons, and sparrows their breakfast (this is always the seating order), sat down with my cup of coffee (and I reluctantly admit, my cigarette), and there was – no sound at all. Nothing. No tram, no car, no ambulance screaming is way to the hospital a few blocks away. Complete silence. Not even the crows were calling.

And then: BLAM! I jumped from my chair. Not figuratively, literally. I either yelled out “Scheiße!” or “Fuck!”; I can't recall which. What I do remember is catching sight of an electric blue flash from the sidewalk across the boulevard, perhaps 50 meters distant by line of sight. And then I saw him, the penultimate yet causal source of the blast. Black trousers, black coat, black stocking cap. If not for the blast, he would have been so well camouflaged in the grey light and fog, I doubt I would have noticed him. Once I did spot him, though, he proved a thoroughly easy target to follow. He walked slowly, very slowly, and deliberately, very deliberately, with an odd, and oddly resolute gait. Of course: it was the Drunk Walk. I must say he demonstrated model technique. If there were Youtube instructional videos on how to properly do the Drunk Walk (I shudder at the thought that there probably are), his would, hands down, be at the pinnacle.

For as long as I could watch him – which was far longer than it ought to have been – his head remained erect, his back – was admittedly at a slightly odd angle, but the angle never varied – and his feet metronomically led the way – they did project themselves a little too far ahead of his torso, but always extended precisely the same distance with each determined step. And sure enough, just before he was eclipsed from view by an intervening building – BLAM! The bastard did it again. This time I saw him do it. He ignited and tossed his explosive (it was far too powerful to call it a firecracker, and firework sounds pretty, which this was not) without breaking step, and with nary a movement. Pure conservation of energy. I swear he did not even cast an eye down to light the thing. Perfect execution.

The pathetic fool moved out of view, I had just begun to regroup, when – BLAM! (or rather, Blam!) Not as loud as before, but loud enough. More remarkable: the three blasts seemed evenly spaced in time, uncannily so. I was wearing my sports watch, I started the stopwatch, and 42 seconds later, blam! The next, and what would be the final blast, came 46 seconds after that. Not perfectly timed after all, but damn good, all things considered. I've no idea if the guy ran out of fireworks, if he sat down on a park bench for a nap, or if he simply didn't fancy his form of performance art anymore. And truly, I don't care.

Does this bloke encapsulate all that is wrong about patriarchy and capitalism? Is he both perpetrator and victim? Does he uphold the very system that exploits him? Does he even know he is oppressed? I've no idea. But what haunts me is how nondescript, how average he looked. Apart from his astounding Drunk Walk, absolutely nothing remarkable about him. It's not that this guy was or is “everyman”, or anything like that. Doing what he did this morning, he an asshole. Whether he is always an asshole, or just early on New Year's morning, it doesn't matter in the least. But he was so nondescript, so mechanical, he seemed so aloof … was Mr. Explosive Launching Drunk Walk Man actually a harbinger of 2023? I mean, he was the first human I encountered this year – or was he the first human I encountered this year?

It's been dark now for a good three hours now, the traffic is normal for a Sunday evening, and three ambulances blasted by while I've been writing this, which in truth were far louder and more penetrating than his explosives ever were. But still, if Mr. Explosive (for short) really was an omen, an augury, a portent, a foretoken of 2023 – well then, we are well and truly fucked.

#Essay #NonFiction #Writing #WritingLife #WritersLife #Schreiben #AmWriting #NewYears2023

you can also find this essay on
https://www.tumblr.com/ariadneross/705268248362483712/first-human-encounter-on-new-years-morning-2023?source=share

Now I feel obligated to say "Happy New Years" to everyone I pass by for the rest of the month. #newyears2023

Love you all.

Let's make good things happen in 2023.

#NewYear #NewYearsEve #NewYearsDay #NewYears2023 #Vaporwave #Synthwave #FutureFunk #NuDisco

It’s not over by a longshot. #COVID19
#NewYears2023 #2minutebeachclean #Overstrand #Norfolk

Good morning! I hope today is a gentle and healthy start to 2023. Here's hoping this year, with its coming joys and challenges, is a good one.

#NewYears #NewYears2023

Here’s to writing 2022 on everything for a couple more months. Happy New Years, all! #newyears2023