Here's to 2009

A happy New Year! Grant that I
May bring no tear to any eye
When this New Year in time shall end
Let it be said I've played the friend,
Have lived and loved and labored here,
And made of it a happy year.
-Edgar A. Guest

For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. - T.S. Eliot

And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown. And he replied: Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way. -Minnie L. Haskins

Book Tag

My cousin had this post on her facebook...thought it might be a fun tag.
Rules:
1. Grab the book closest to you.
2. Go to page 56.
3. Find the 5th sentence.
4. Don't go looking for your favorite book, or the coolest one you have- just grab the closest one.
5. Post the title of the book along with the sentence.
I tag...anyone who might find this amusing!

"Had a big chaw of Brown Mule stuck in his face and spat all over our nice clean dirt floor."
Shadow Country by Peter Matthiessen.
I bought this book as a gift and now I'm rethinking it!