A New Year, A Time for Hope

Happy 2009. For the second time in a row, I started my year with the bustling crowd in Pasadena, anticipating an amazing spectacle of sights and sounds for the Tournament of Roses Parade. Watching the floats and the bands go by through the zoom of a camera lens, I could see even more clearly the determined looks, the proud faces and the happy smiles of the participants. And I too felt new energy and resolve. As we ring in the New Year, we are always filled with a sense of hope, a sense that anything can happen.

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