New is the year, new are the hopes, new is the resolution, new are the spirits, and new are my warm wishes just for you. Have a promising and fulfilling new year!

When you are struggling in life the soul wants you to overcome challenges by being authentic, working in your own unique way ,through experiencing yourself rather than taking on the voices and opinions of others.

Authors and friends pay tribute to Gabe Hudson:

Besides feeling good, positive emotions do good things for our brains and bodies. They lower stress hormones, help ease anxiety and depression, and improve our immune system. Feeling some positive emotions every day has a big effect on our happiness and well-being.

Benefits of staying focused
When you stay focused on one assignment, you're more apt to complete it more efficiently. Your ability to finish tasks quicker can motivate you to move on to the next. Knowing you can get things done will help you stay positive and motivate you to achieve your next goal.

If you want a better world, you have to care about everyone, not just your friends and family. Caring about the rest of the world means you live a life of purpose beyond yourself. What we see in the world right now, poverty, racism, war, and corruption all come down to a lack of care for others.

The UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian refugees says it is going through one of its ‘darkest chapters,’ with at least 108 staff killed by Israeli strikes on dozens of the agency’s facilities: ‘We cannot even protect people under the United Nations flag.’

You can choose for everyone. Different lifestyle and different wants.

A thousand years ago this Chinese gentleman went from pragmatic cat employer to doting cat slave with no regrets.

On the seventh anniversary of THIS image, here's a funny story about the elephants, Naomi Wolf and the absurdity of online nostalgia.