May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope you read some fine books and kiss someone who thinks you’re wonderful, and don’t forget to make some art – write or draw or build or sing or live as only you can. And I hope, somewhere in the next year, you surprise yourself.

Neil Gaiman 

Edmund Dulac, The Snow Queen Flies Through the Winter’s Night. Illustration for “The Snow Queen: in Seven Stories,” Stories from Hans Christian Andersen, 1911.

Edmund Dulac, The Snow Queen Flies Through the Winter’s Night.

Illustration for “The Snow Queen: in Seven Stories,”  
Stories from Hans Christian Andersen, 1911.

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light;
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred, Lord Tennyson, “Ring Out, Wild Bells”