A peaceful, healthy and productive year to one and all from the friends, authors, family members and movers and shakers at Ahadada. May the Muses dance for you in all their beauty, on graceful feet, with fingers interlaced, to the sound of Ficino’s salubrious lute, for (as the headline news services remind us by the minute) we sorely need their return. May they dance through the dreams of the perplexed and the dogmatic, the witless and the misguided, embodying the virtues of balance and measure, of restraint and reason, so that even the jackass nations of the world will cease from striking hoof against hoof and lift their heads and attempt a human parley.

May 2006 be the year that the richest men and women in the world finally decide that Global Warming is Real and is a Problem and that Tomorrow is a limited resource and may they feel so nostalgic for the graceful dance of the beautiful ladies that they call the factory owners and the politicians on their cell phones and demand that SOMETHING MUST BE DONE! Then perhaps something will be done. Let us all hope so.

We welcome the dance of creative minds, for truth and goodness and health and wisdom is embodied there. May you all step forth and join the figures when the time is right.