HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

Alfred Lord Tennyson,

From "In Memoriam"

I had an English professor at Ohio State that had us reading lots of Alfred Lord Tennyson.  Some of it was hard to decipher, and some of it was pretty straight-forward, like the excerpt found above.  I really liked that class.  There were no wrong answers.  We contemplated, we interpreted, we discussed. 

It was deep...