Category: Happy New Year

Auld Lang Syne

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Whatever we’ve been through that we are closing the 2023 door on, and whatever we are opening the 2024 door to;

This article on the first holiday season & New Year’s after WWII reminds it was like closing the door from hell and opening one into the garden of promise.

During the war years fabric rations precluded party dress, let alone gowns.

Blogger Trent says:

“You do have to mention the flour sack dresses of the 1930s – so it wasn’t just the war, it was the war after years of Depression. Forced frugality because of the economy which continued into the war, when doing with less was patriotic. Holiday season, 1945 – a time to celebrate, put on a gown and dance like the world is brand new again.”

Yes, the Depression, where gowns from the 1930’s were spectacular: silks (in charmeuse, satin, organza, georgette, moiré), bias cuts, feathers, beads, and more.

However, those gowns were worn by movie stars in movies, where people went to forget their troubles and hardships.

Glamorous Gowns were an important part of the “forgetting magic”. Every movie had a “Gowns Designed by” credit.

Can you imagine turning the page on 1945 and opening it to 1946?

I suppose I’m letting history put my personal fortune into perspective.

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“THE WORLD IS BRAND NEW AGAIN.”

Translation:  “Old Long Since” in English, and means something akin to “Times Gone By” or “Old Times Sake”.

“In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida” – 2022

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This New Year is about light and life.

Happy New Year! Boogapony Holly here in my best “Iron Butterfly” colours! I’m ponying on down into the light of 2022 with you all, while RR, the AGMs & R.B. are on holidays.

Perhaps you just need to take it easy, and let the light shine on you?

Or you’ve decided to climb for the stars!

The light of life can be found in your inside garden.

Or find it, in your outside garden.

Wherever you find it, bask in it!

Photo © Stephanie Tudin – Model P. Matheson in Mystic Lake

You’re in “The Garden of Life”. “In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida”

⭐️ FYI ⭐️

This is three and a half minutes of song & 14 minutes of music jam, with a psychedelic light show. What else could one ask for?

Well, that was long enough for me to do a costume change! For everyone who is not the “Iron Butterfly”  type, I’d like to introduce a song completely from the other side of the stars.

The Age Of Aquarius is defined as “an astrological era believed to bring increased spirituality and harmony on earth.” Start dates vary. However, whether it began 0n the vernal equinox on March 20, 2021, or December 2020, the astrological ages last approximately 2,150 years.

Boogapony Holly character © Resa McConaghy & Holly Rene Hunter

Since January, 2018