In the Chinese Zodiac

Find out who you are:
https://www.chinahighlights.com/travelguide/chinese-zodiac/

If you are an Ox, this is your year:

This year is going to be lucky and also perfect to focus on relationships, whether we are talking about friendships or love. In the Chinese Zodiac, the Ox is very hardworking and methodical. 2021 is going to be a year when work will get rewarded, and those zodiac signs who are lucky in terms of money this year will be the ones that will make a considerable effort. The Yin energy, specific to the Chinese zodiac sign of Ox, will be quite poignant. This is going to be a year when we will fully feel the weight of our responsibilities, a year when it is necessary to double our efforts to accomplish anything at all. The Yin energy, specific to the Chinese zodiac sign of Ox, will be quite poignant. This is going to be a year when we will fully feel the weight of our responsibilities, a year when it is necessary to double our efforts to accomplish anything at all. Since this is a Metal year, for the second successive year, the color of 2021 is going to be white.

Besides white, the lucky colours of the Ox are: yellow and green, colours that, in Feng Shui, attract prosperity and success. To increase your luck, wear metal accessories.

This year, no explosive or catastrophic events will occur, so it is a favorable year for economic recovery or consolidation, a year of long-term investments (especially for creating a reserve stock for the coming unproductive years). The Metal Ox year is also great for making order in the family life. After all, if the family life is peaceful, everything gets solved! Thus, 2021 is a year when all the problems get solved with discipline. A lot of discipline! Obviously, with an extra effort from us in organizing our time.

Let’s all celebrate yet another New Year. The big day will be February 12th.

Listening to Ted … and Rosemary and Clyde and Brian and others.

Go at your own pace and pick your own topics.  TED has talks on everything from personal growth to social change to health and nature to the environment.  

If you haven’t been here for a while, it’s time you refreshed your interests.

https://www.ted.com

The Fall of Khrushchev – William Hyland and Richard W. Shryock

The Persian Letters, Montesquieu (have two copies)

Tales of the West, Bret Harte, 0-517-05289-x

Gulag Archipelago, Solzhenitsyn, 0-06-013914-5

Human Smoke, Beginnings of WW II, the end of Civilization, Nicholson Baker, 978-1-4165-7246-6