Yet another year has come to an end and here we are, ready to step on the other side, into the unknown. Don’t worry, I won’t mention New Year resolutions; I don’t have any, I never had. Instead, I’ll present you a recipe that teaches you how to prepare a delicious New year! Sounds good, doesn’t it? I know, I know!

It is a classical recipe, kind of difficult to find, created by Katharina Elisabeth Goethe (1731-1808), mother of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The ingredients are pretty common, you won’t encounter any trouble finding them.

Here is the recipe, bon apetit!

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Recipe for a happy New Year! Recipe for a happy New Year!
Take 12 months, clean them from envy,
bitterness, costiveness, pedantry
and divide them into 30 or 31 parts,
so that the supply is enough for one year.
Each day individually arranged from:
1 part of work and
2 parts of exhilaration and humor.
Add 3 heaped tablespoons optimism,
1 tablespoon tolerance, 1 pellet irony
and 1 pinch of time.
Then dowse the mass with
very much love all over.
The finished dish can be decorated
with posies of small attentions,
serve it daily with amusement!
- Katharina Elisabeth Goethe (1731-1808) -

Starting the 1st of January 2008, the blog will sport a slightly updated design (color wise) and will aim for the stars – the A list status. It will be a big year, I’m telling you!

I wish you all a happy New Year!! See you on the other side.



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  • http://www.essentiallifeskills.net ZHereford

    A wonderful post Armannd!

  • http://www.essentiallifeskills.net ZHereford

    A wonderful post Armannd!

  • http://armannd.com/ Titus-Armand

    Thank you, Z!

  • http://armannd.com/ Titus-Armand

    Thank you, Z!

  • Laudien A

    We liked the text, but polished up the translation a bit.
    Two Germans

    Recipe for a happy New Year!
    Take 12 months, clean them from envy,
    bitterness, costiveness, pedantry
    and divide them into 30 or 31 parts,
    so that the supply is enough for one year.
    Each day individually arranged from:
    1 part of work and
    2 parts of exhilaration and humor.
    Add 3 heaped tablespoons optimism,
    1 tablespoon tolerance, 1 pellet irony
    and 1 pinch of time.
    Then dowse the mass with
    very much love all over.
    The finished dish can be decorated
    with posies of small attentions,
    serve it daily with amusement!

    - Katharina Elisabeth Goethe (1731-1808) -

  • http://armannd.com/ Titus-Armand

    That does look better, replaced the one in the post with it. Thanks. :D