• May your hair, your teeth, your face-lift, your abs, and your stocks not fall; and may your blood pressure, your triglycerides, your cholesterol, your white blood count and your mortgage interest not rise.
• May you get a clean bill of health from your dentist, your cardiologist, your gastroenterologist, your urologist, your proctologist, your podiatrist, your psychiatrist, your plumber, and the IRS.
• May you find a way to travel from anywhere to anywhere during rush hour in less than an hour, and when you get there may you find a parking space.
• May Friday evening, December 31, find you seated around the dinner table, together with your beloved family and cherished friends, ushering in the New Year ahead. You will find the food better, the environment quieter, the cost much cheaper, and the pleasure much more fulfilling thananything else you might ordinarily do that night.
• May you wake up on January 1 finding that the world has not come to an end, the lights work, the water faucets flow, and the sky has not fallen.
• May you go to the bank on Monday morning, January 3 and find your account is in order, your money is still there, and any mistakes are in yourfavor.
• May you ponder on January 4, "How did this ultramodern civilization of ours manage to get itself traumatized by a possible slip of a blip on a chip made out of sand?"
• May you have the strength to go through a year of presidential campaigning, and may some of the promises made be kept.
• May you believe at least half of what the candidates propose, and may those elected fulfill at least half of what they promise, and the miracle of reducing taxes and balancing budgets happen.
• May what you see in the mirror delight you, and what others see in you delight them.
• May the telemarketers wait to make their sales calls until you finish dinner, may your checkbook and your budget balance, and may they include generous amounts for your church and charities.
• May you remember to say "I love you" at least once a day to your spouse, your child, and your parent(s). You can say it to your secretary, your nurse, your butcher, your photographer, your masseuse, your seamstress, your hairdresser or your tennis instructor, but not with a "twinkle" inyour eye.
• May we live as intended, in a world at peace with the awareness of the beauty in every sunset, every flower's unfolding petals, every baby's smile and every wonderful, astonishing, miraculous beat of our heart.
• And, may you forward this on to someone that could use a smile and a laugh to brighten their day.
• Bless you with every happiness, great health peace, and much love during the next year and all those that follow.