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Happy holidays, merry Christmas, happy Hanukkah, happy Kwanzaa, happy Festivus, happy any other holiday you like or no holiday at all!

Thanks to all of you for being a great group to talk about financial independence (and other oddball topics) with! May your SWR be forever half a point lower.

Best wishes GdP, Chenda, and everyone!

I like Chenda's pic, so I'll contribute a favorite poem ... "To Wen Feiqing On a Winter's Night"

In bitter longing I sought poems to recite beneath the lamp,
sleepless through the long nights, fearing a cold quilt.
Leaves strewn across the courtyard lamented when winds rose;
through gauze window curtains I grieved at the setting moon.
Thoughts scattered and released, at last I found fulfillment:
through the emptiness of rise and fall, I saw True Mind.
Now roosting in seclusion, away from paulownias,
an evening sparrow twitters, simply circling the grove.

Yes, thank you all for contributing in this forum. It is sooo inspiring, and gives new perspectives on many topics which are dear to me.
And especially I want to thank Jacob, for his unrelenting attention to keep it working and to moderate it (together whith others). Best wishes for 2017 for all of you.