I still don't know his last name.Gille arrived from Michigan in a small jar with his photograph on the lid. His friend had sent an email to Chapel Dulcinea asking if we'd be willing to launch some of Gille's ashes into the breeze that always blows there.We replied we'd be happy to do it.It seems that Gille's parting wish was for his ashes to be scattered at beautiful and interesting places around the world and Chapel Dulcinea was selected as one of those places. So at sunset on December 13, 2006, Tom Grimes, Brett Feinstein and I became the awkward honor guard that entrusted Gille to the winds from the western pinnacle of Dulcinea's diamond foundation.Feinstein rang the big bronze bell as Gille floated northward into forever.How are things with you? Are you ready to begin a new year?This is the time when millions of us pause to look back with regret and forward with hope. As you prepare for 2007, here are some thoughts I hope you'll ponder:It's Always Okay To Begin Again“The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul.” – G.K. ChestertonPay Attention to the Little Things“It is often said that before you die your life passes before your eyes. It is in fact true. It's called living.” – Terry Pratchett“No trumpets sound when the important decisions of our life are made. Destiny is made known silently.” – Agnes De MilleKnow What You Want“I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.” – Mark TwainDon't Think You Know It All“The more we live by our intellect, the less we understand the meaning of life.” – Leo Tolstoy“And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.” – Oscar WildeDon't Be A Couch Potato“Literacy is a very hard skill to acquire, and once acquired it brings endless heartache – for the more you read, the more you learn of life's intimidating complexity of confusion. But anyone who can learn to grunt is bright enough to watch TV… which teaches that life is simple, and happy endings come to those whose hearts are in the right place.” – Spider Robinson“If I show up at your house 10 years from now, and find nothing in your living room but Reader's Digests, nothing in your bedroom but the latest Dan Brown novel… I will chase you down to the end of your driveway and back shouting 'Where are the damn books?… Why are you living the mental equivalent of a Kraft Macaroni & Cheese life?'” – Stephen King, to the 2005 graduating class of the University of MaineYou're Going To Have Some Bad Days“Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.” – Annette Funicello“Life is like a train. It's bearing down on you and guess what? It's going to hit you. So you can either start running when it's far off in the distance, or you can pull up a chair, crack open a beer, and just watch it come.” – Eric Forman, on That 70s Show“My life has been filled with terrible misfortune; most of which never happened.” – MontaigneHave Courage“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.” – Helen Keller“Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life.” – Patty HansenLove Your Job“Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for...