Happy Holidays to ERE!

[Gilberto de Piento]

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.

[chenda]

[jennypenny]

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.

[J_]

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.