New Year’s Day 2013—Drive Safely, Tip Well, Be Kind & Recall That The Work Of Freedom Is Up To Each Of Us
Today is the last day of 2012.
(Above—From left to right are bandleader Skitch Henderson, host Johnny Carson and sidekick Ed McMahon as the Tonight Show rang in 1963.)
I hope you had a good 2012 and I hope you have an even better 2013.
For today and for New Year’s Day tomorrow, all I can ask is that you drive safely and soeberly, that you tip people well who are working a holiday, and that you be kind to others for the holiday and for all the year ahead.
And don’t forget—as I often say here at Texas Liberal—that the work of freedom is up to each of us. If you want things to be better, then you have to work to help make it so.
Thanks to everybody who has the blog in 2012. Texas Liberal will be up and running in 2o13. I also have another project in the works that I hope to be able to discuss and promote soon.
This covers all my current thoughts on the year now almost over, and on the year ahead.
Welcome To Texas Liberal
Texas Liberal is a blog of politics and political history.
My name is Neil Aquino. Here is my profile.
I can be reached at naa618@att.net.
Additional focuses of the blog are books, art, poetry, personal relationships and, also, sea life and marine mammals.
( The picture above is of the Houston Ship Channel. A narrow channel can lead to a wide sea.)
The signature post of this blog is the Martin Luther King Reading & Reference List. This list is the best of it’s kind on the web.
Another good post is my reciting the words to the Shaker hymn Simple Gifts on Galveston Island, Texas as a ship passes behind.
I live in Houston, Texas and I do sometimes write about political issues in Houston and in Texas.
I also often write about my former hometown of Cincinnati, and about the great beach city of Galveston, Texas.
I define liberalism as a role for government in the economy to help make life more fair, and a broad acceptance of people regardless of who they are.
This is why it says “All People Matter” at the top of the blog.
A blog grows one reader at a time. If you like what you read here, please consider forwarding the link.
Texas Liberal began regular posting on July 25, 2006.
I also blog at the Houston Chronicle as one of eight featured political bloggers, and on Where’s The Outrage? which posts out of North Carolina.
Thanks for reading Texas Liberal.
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