All the best for 2013 from Peninsula Daily News

All the best for 2013 from Peninsula Daily News

A toast to the PDN’s readers and advertisers! (With video link)

HAPPY NEW(S) YEAR!

Hopefully, we’re not about to link arms, pop the champagne and slide over the “fiscal cliff” . . .

As we await the agonizing, last-minute negotiations in the “other” Washington, for your listening and viewing pleasure: . . . The Dubai Fountain – “Time To Say Goodbye” (HD): http://www.flixxy.com/burj-khalifa-fountain-dubai-time-to-say-goodbye.htm#.UN91k02QBMQ.email

AND . . . looking ahead to a (hopefully!) successful conclusion between the president and Congress . . .

A TOAST . . .

To Hope

To the Future

To the Old Guard

To the Renewed Guard

To Possibility

To Perseverance

To Collaboration

To Communication

To Progress

To Clean

To Green

To Quiet

To Peace

To Yes

To Fearlessness

To Selflessness

To Freedom

to Responsibility

To Family

to Respect

to Education

to Invention

to Reinvention

to Moving Forward

to Letting Go

to Saving

to Giving

to Laughing

to Relaxing

To the Individual

To the Whole

To Leadership

To Legacies

To 2012

To 2013

To Celebrating That Which Matters Most . . .

— Courtesy of Grey Goose Importing Co.

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