Happy New Year - Make 2012 a Year of Smiles

As the old year's fires are doused and I look to a New Year, I remember the contributions made by the people who have left this earth during 2011 and prior years.  No one leaves this world without leaving their mark. Some will be personal ones and some will be indirect.   Be it a big or a small one, a joyful one or hateful one, the mark of the departed touch those left behind.

The marks do not have to be of geniuses, learned or acclaimed to be profound.  They may be of little importance to most but be significant to a few.  If I can leave one mark of my own it would be that things I did or said are remembered with a smile.  For if I can put a smile on someone's face even when I am no longer here to do it in person then I would have succeeded in leaving a mark of significance rather than indifference. 

And so as another year has passed and we celebrate a New Year into life, I shall find new ways to create smiles.  I wish everyone a Happy New Year.  May you make smiles to remember in 2012.

Pamela