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Annie's Mailbox®, January 1

Dear Readers: Happy New Year. We hope you managed to get through last night with a minimum of embarrassment or harm, and that you still remember what you did.

We also hope 2010 will be a wonderful year for each and every one of you.

May you be blessed with good health, kind friends, close family, love and laughter. Make this the year you vow to be kinder to everyone you meet. It helps make the world a better place in which to live.

Here's a short piece by Edgar Guest we hope you will enjoy:

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It would have been nice if the Edgar Guest piece actually had been included in the webpage posting of the New Years Day issue of Annie's Mailbox. Sadly, the column was truncated immediately after the "tease" that the piece would follow.

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Posted by: graham072442
Fri Jan 1, 2010 7:13 AM

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Actually, another smarmy poem by Edgar Guest is exactly what I DON'T need on New Year's Day. Thank goodness it got left off. With any luck, they won't run it tomorrow.

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Posted by: Maggie Lawrence
Fri Jan 1, 2010 7:19 AM

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Actually, I thought it was a New Year's Day joke! Nothing at all! which is what Guest is anyhow!

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Posted by: Jeff Keith
Fri Jan 1, 2010 12:20 PM

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Re: Maggie Lawrence, oh how you have hurt my feelings!
Thoughtlessness
by Edgar Guest
A little bit of hatred can spoil a score of years
And blur the eyes that ought to smile with many needless tears.
A little bit of thoughtlessness and anger for a day
Can rob a home of all its joy and drive delight away..
A little bit of shouting in a sharp and vicious tone
Can leave a sting that will be felt when many years have flown.
And just one hasty moment of ill temper can offend
And leave an inner injury the years may never mend.
It takes no mental fiber to say harsh and bitter things;
It doesn't call for courage to employ a lash that stings.
And cruel words and bitter any fool can think to say,
But the hurt they leave behind them takes years to wipe away.
Just a little bit of hatred robs a home of all delight,
And leaves a winding trail of wrong that time may never right.
For only those are happy and keep their peace of mind,
Who guard themselves from hatred and words that are unkind!

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Posted by: Edgar Guest
Fri Jan 1, 2010 5:33 PM

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