Happy New Year

The optimistic, ever-hopeful, probably most realistic version:

Here's to a happy, healthy, peaceful, natural-disaster-free, prosperous New Year!

The fan-girl-nerd uptopian version:

Here's to a

• happy,
• healthy, peaceful,
• natural-disaster-free,
• honest-politician,
• scientifically significant,
• we-launch-a-shuttle-again,
• announcement-of-the-X-Prize-2:-Fly-To-the-Moon,
• we-cure-everything,
• everyone-is-valued-for-who-they-are,
• everyone-has-equal-rights,
• we-truly-respect-and-not-just-tolerate-others

New Year.

The teacher/sister version:

Here's to a New Year where everyone is valued for all their abilities (even if it's the ability to sneak out of the classroom and run really fast! :-)), and where the rights, dignity, and worth of persons with disabilities becomes so commonplace that people don't even understand why it used to be an issue.