JANUARY 1, 2023 ~ THE NEW YEAR

We wake to sun streaming in through our windows.  A glorious sunrise over the Inner Harbor and the Bay and ocean beyond that casts a shadowing glow over the holiday decorations still hanging there.  Sun that casts light on June and she, too, glows.  A beautiful new day, to welcome a new year.  It is a wonderful world.

So I share with you my most favorite song, a song loved for more years than I can remember ~ "What A Wonderful World"

I see trees of green, red roses too

I see them bloom, For me and you

And I think to myself ~ What a wonderful world

I see skies of blue, and clouds of white

The bright blessed day, the dark sacred night

And I think to myself ~ What a wonderful world

The colors of the rainbow, so pretty in the sky

Are also on the faces, of people going by

I see friends shaking hands, saying "how do you do?"

They're really saying "I love you"

I hear babies cry, I watch them grow

They'll learn much more, than I'll ever know

And I think to myself ~ What a wonderful world

Yes, I think to myself

What a wonderful world

Oh yeah

~ ~ ~

May you find wonder in each day of your new year.

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"What A Wonderful World" is a jazz song written by Bob Thiele (writing as George Douglas) and George David Weiss.  It was first recorded by Louis Armstrong and released in 1967 as a single, which topped the pop charts in the United Kingdom.  Armstrong's recording was inducted in the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.  The publishing for this song is controlled by Memory Lane Music Group, Carlin Music Corp., and BMG Rights Management.  Lyrics (c) BMG Rights Management, CONCORD Music Publishing LLC, Tratore, Round Hill Music Big Loud Songs