FISHBOWL MAGAZINE JANUARY 2023

On Our Cover

GISS Dance Presents

Reflections

January 11 & 12 at ArtSpring

The positive enthusiasm of our youth will enliven and warm your hearts in this semester-end collection of choreography from the GISS Dance studio. Featuring music throwbacks and tributes to Beyoncé, Brittany Spears, and Queen Latifah you will witness the powerhouse energy of our youth.

Glen Miller’s classic “In the Mood” will offer historic dance steps from the 1930’s, and our very own local songwriter Christina Kennedy will be featured in a choreographic tip of the hat to future GISS graduates. With the energy of Hip Hop and Jazz, and the grace and flow of Lyrical and Contemporary dance, the show has something for everyone.

Please come to support these fabulous young dancers and support live performing arts! - submitted by Sonia Langer

GISS Presents “Murder on The Orient Express”

January 5th & 6th at ArtSpring 7:30 pm

This mysterious and thrilling production of “Murder on the Orient Express” is designed and produced entirely by GISS students, and they have created a highly entertaining production from beginning to end.

To set the stage, we find ourselves in 1930s. Poirot, the famous detective, is aboard the wellknown Orient Express. On the train, an odd group of individuals with unique personalities have to survive living next to each other. Unfortunately, a murder is committed.

Poirot is stuck, in close quarters, trying to solve yet another crime where everyone is a suspect.

Come one, come all, and be carried along by a most puzzling journey with “Murder on the Orient Express” performed by this equally unique group of GISS’s grade 10, 11, and 12 theatre students.

January 18th & 19th at ArtSpring 7:30 pm

Come join GISS Music Students in their semester-end music celebration!

Performed by the Concert Band, Jazz Band, Choir students, as well as students from the Composition and GISPA Music classes.

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Price is Right

PRODUCT REVIEWS

by: Genevieve Price

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A lot of people are sometimes unsure of what the benefits from daily dry brushing are. The obvious one is exfoliation but there are so many more.

Your lymphatic drainage is a major part of the body’s immune system. It is responsible for ridding the body of toxins through lymph fluid. When built up this fluid can cause tired, puffy looking skin. Many of these vessels run just below the skin and dry brushing regularly can help stimulate flow, helping the body to detoxify itself naturally.

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HOW TO FACIAL DRY BRUSH (IN 4-STEPS):

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3. Brush the front of our face down the cheeks towards the chin. Then brush outwards, from the apples of your cheeks towards your temples.

4. Sweep across your jawline towards the ear. Continue down the neck.

at ArtSpring on Jan. 25

The Salt Spring Film Festival continues its “Best of the Fests” film series with CALL JANE, an award-winning new film about the underground abortion movement of the 1960s, starring Elizabeth Banks, Kate Mara and Sigourney Weaver.

Premiering at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival, this surprisingly entertaining drama about a very serious subject was nominated for Best Film at the 2022 Berlin International Film Festival.

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Dry-brushing is one of those rare things that feels just as good when you do it yourself (can be an add-on at many spas) and it’s incredibly easy to incorporate into your routine.

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In the role of her career,

Banks portrays Joy, a conservative housewife in 1968 Chicago – when the city and the nation are in the midst of political and civil upheaval – whose second pregnancy leads to a devastating diagnosis. Following an all-male hospital board’s inexplicable decision to deny her the necessary procedure, Joy’s desperate search for a solution leads her to a clandestine group of women known as The Janes, who run an underground network helping women terminate unwanted pregnancies at a time when abortion is in most cases illegal.

Led by Virginia (Sigourney Weaver), an independent visionary fiercely committed to women’s health, and Gwen (Wunmi Mosaku), an African-American activist who envisions a day when all women will have access to safe, affordable abortion care, this diverse community of women ignites an awakening in Joy. Inspired by their compassion and commitment, she risks everything to provide other women with the reproductive options she herself had been denied.

Sigourney Weaver won the Tiantian Award for Best Supporting Actress at the 2022 Beijing International Film Festival, where the film was also nominated for Best Film.

Director Phyllis Nagy, whose 2005 directorial debut MRS. HARRIS (starring Annette Bening and Ben Kingsley) was nominated for 12 Emmy Awards, also wrote the screenplay for CAROL (starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara), which she adapted from the 1952 Patricia Highsmith novel The Price of Salt and for which she was nominated for an Oscar.

Calling the film “a meditation on choice – personal, political, transactional, familial” and hoping to increase awareness of the threat to reproductive rights in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s recent overturning of Roe v. Wade, Nagy recently partnered with Planned Parenthood and the Abortion Care Network to screen CALL JANE at dozens of American clinics.

Don’t miss this must-see film at ArtSpring at 7:30 pm on Wednesday, January 25. Tickets are available online via www.saltspringfilmfestival.com, or at the ArtSpring Box Office from 10 am to 2 pm, Tuesday through Friday (either in person or by phone at 250-537-2102).

Elizabeth

Sponsored by

the singing AMMA

Lisa Sigurgeirson Maxx, ECE

Where did the singing amma go?!

Hello, my friends and loyal readers, the singing amma coming to you today to fill you in on a couple of important details:

First of all, I apologise for disappearing so suddenly with no explanation and no follow up - until now. As many of you will know, I experienced a house fire in February 2021 and basically just quit everything I was involved in at that time as I needed to deal with the trauma of that devastating experience.

Some things I have returned to, like my private childcare work, and my writing, though in different forms than my Fish Bowl columns. Some things I have not returned to, like writing my monthly parenting column here, or my home, which is not yet ready for me to move home to.

Rather than returning as a columnist to this wonderful magazine - though I must say I am super grateful for the eight years I was honoured to be published herein - my parenting work has evolved in a new and exciting direction – I am now the co-creator and co-host of The Nurturing Parent podcast!

I began this podcasting journey alongside my podcasting partner, Sareena, who is a 20-something year old Mama of two littles. November 22 2021 was our one year anniversary!

Together Sareena and I have informative, compassionate, topical, and sometimes playful conversations about things that parents of young ones want to know! We aim to make each episode full of content that parents can use in their daily lives.

Plus, we have recently added a second episode each week – Family Fun Fridays we call them - and they are just that, fun!and something for the whole family to enjoy - songs, art activities, nature walk ideas - to take with you into your weekend and create more fun together as a family.

I bring my background in early childhood education and my decades of experience in childcare and parent coaching, and Sareena brings her feet-on-the-ground, real time, lived experience as a mama to our conversations! It’s a pretty cool combo. Plus we bring in expert guests, too!

As much as I miss writing for you here, I am hoping that some of you might join us in the podcast realm! On some episodes you will actually hear me reading previously written columns for the Fish Bowl as a starting place for a deeper dive into that topic of conversation.

You can find us on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or wherever you listen to podcasts at The Nurturing Parent. And come follow us on Instagram, on our Facebook page or in our private Facebook group @The Nurturing Parent

So, now you know, that’s where the singing amma got to! Oh, and hopefully with some luck, I will be returned to my home sometime in mid 2023. So there’s that.

Thank you to all of you who were loyal readers and I apologise again for leaving without a trace. But here I am, alive and podcasting up a storm!

Send your parenting questions to: singingamma@gmail.com or facebook.com/thesingingamma | www.thesingingamma.com

The Printmakers on Salt Spring Island are not a new group of artists and artisans. They are, however, a newly formed ‘Society’ and have acquired a splendid new studio space in the former Middle School in Ganges.

My own experience began three ½ years ago when I first moved to the island. I knew no one yet serendipitously met some printmakers at an Art Night who invited me to come out and try it. I didn’t have my hopes up. My greatest accomplishment was not cutting my arm off in those early days but what kept me coming back was the easy, comfortable, and supportive company of my mentors. Though the options for printing techniques are many and varied, I stuck with lino block carving and over time found my way using this ‘simple’ method with the addition of other techniques. I was pleased and these modest accomplishments fuelled my curiosity to try other expressions in printing.

As a potter and painter, I soon realized that this art form was very accessible to anyone wanting a way to be creative and expressive without needing (any) drawing or painting skills. Great things can be achieved with a few tools, patience and mentoring in the areas of colour and composition.

It can be very intimidating for people to begin a new endeavor; even more so if they don’t have an arts background. The only thing that can bridge that insecurity is having the curiosity and desire to be expressive. This art form is perfect in its initial simplicity and rewarding results.

Combined with wonderful company it is a winning combination. The Printmakers now offer a mentored studio day once a month for $20.00 (plus a $30.00 membership fee). It is usually the second Tuesday of each month from 10:00 am – 3:00 pm. All materials are available on site. Simple, accessible projects can be started to launch you on this new journey.

Workshops in a wide variety of print making techniques are scheduled for 2023. As in painting, finding a medium or technique that feels right can open up a whole world of creative freedom. Even though the printing terms may sound exotic, the techniques once experienced, are very doable with practice.

For more information please see the SSI Printmakers website https://www.ssiprintmakers.ca or contact Johanna Hoskins or Nora Layard at ssiprintmakers@gmail.com for more information.

Nurturing, empowering & educating families for over 30 years

*amma = grandmother in Icelandic

live on stage in January 2023

A fresh-faced new year now upon us, January at ArtSpring promises Baroque Bach, Blues, and the best of Opera through its ArtSpring Presents program as well as local stagings, screenings, and exhibitions.

The Met’s award-winning opera series Live in HD presents Umberto Giordano’s exhilarating drama Fedora, returning to the Met repertory for the first time in 25 years. Packed with memorable melodies, showstopping arias, and explosive confrontations, Fedora requires a cast of thrilling voices to take flight, including soprano Sonya Yoncheva, one of today’s most riveting artists who sings the title role of the 19th-century Russian princess who falls in love with her fiancé’s murderer. An ingenious fixed set, like that of a Russian nesting doll, unfolds to reveal the opera’s three distinct settings—a palace in St. Petersburg, a fashionable Parisian salon, and a picturesque villa in the Swiss Alps.

Asexuality

Spend a Sunday afternoon on January 15th with the muchloved British harpsichordist and music director Steven Devine, who returns to direct Victoria Baroque in a program of exhilarating works by Johann Sebastian Bach and his son, Carl Philipp Emmanuel, including Orchestral Suite No.3, with Air on the G string, and Bach’s only Italian cantata, Non sa che sia dolore

Switch gears into the guitar riffs and vocal stylings of Suzie Vinnick and Lloyd Spiegel on January 22. A Saskatoon native transplanted to Niagara, Ontario, Vinnick’s gorgeous voice, impressive guitar and bass chops, and an engagingly candid performance style has led her to ten Maple Blues Awards, one Canadian Folk Music Award, and three Juno nominations.

Multi-award-winning Australian artist Lloyd Spiegel blends jaw-dropping guitar prowess with a commanding voice, powerful songwriting, storytelling, and comedy. A touring artist since age 11, with ten albums to his name, Lloyd has toured the globe performing at major festivals, theatres, and iconic juke joints, as well as supporting the likes of Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, and Etta James on tour.

The Gulf Island Secondary School (GISS’s) dance, theatre, and music programs hit the stage in the first half of January. Salt Spring Film Festival’s special screening of Call Jane, the popular Vancouverbased Vetta Chamber Music orchestra, and a lobby exhibition of the Salt Spring Photography Club round out a robust month of culture and community.

Box Office - Tuesday-Friday 10am-2pm | 250.537.2102

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Featuring Jen Redpath & Jessica Terezakis

Sexual identity exists on a wonderfully diverse spectrum. It can change over time and is always self-defined - which means only you get to choose how you identify!

Asexuality or Ace for short is a sexual orientation just like any other. Many people who identity as Asexual don’t have sexual attraction towards others, which is completely normal. It is important to remember that love doesn’t have to equal sex and that there are many people who have healthy happy relationships that don’t involve sex or sexual attraction. Others who identify as Asexual may experience other forms of attraction such as romantic, emotional, spiritual, or aesthetic attraction. There is a lot that we can all learn from Asexuality!

Here are just some of the identities that fall under the spectrum of Asexuality.

Cupioromantic: someone who does not experience romantic attraction but has a desire to be in a romantic relationship.

Cupiosexual: someone who desires a sexual relationship, but does not experience sexual attraction.

Demisexual: People who only experience sexual attraction once they form a strong emotional connection with another person.

Demiromantic: a person who experiences romantic attraction to someone only after forming a close emotional bond with that person.

Grey-A: People who identify somewhere between sexual and asexual.

Queerplatonic: People who experience a type of non-romantic relationship where there is an intense emotional connection that goes beyond a traditional friendship.

Aces commonly use hetero-, homo-, bi-, and pan- in front of the word romantic to describe who they experience romantic attraction to. For example, a person who is hetero-romantic might be attracted to people of a different sex or gender, but not in a sexual way.

Just like our readers, we are always learning. We really loved the graphic novel,

How to be ACE - A Memoir of Growing Up Asexual, by Rebecca Burgess. Burgess shares the experiences of navigating relationships, sex and falling in love as a self-identified autistic asexual human. Burgess uses relatable situations to bring humour and compassion for ourselves and others as we transition from child to adult. The graphic comic uses illustrations and captive discussions amongst the characters to break down stereotypes and acknowledge the myriad of feelings young people experience as they learn about their identity through Burgess’ story of growing up asexual. The book also includes resources for families to learn about asexuality and community-based groups for advocacy and to learn more. Find it at the Community Sexual Health Library at Options for Sexual Health in the Core inn Tuesday from 4:30pm - 6:30pm

Here are some other online resources about asexuality. https://www.advocatesforyouth.org/resources/healthinformation/i-think-i-might-be-asexual/ https://www.asexuality.org/ https://acesandaros.org/learn

photo credit kevin kelly photography

photo credit jan gates

Fayne

by Ann-Marie MacDonald

Mishka’s Book Reviews

with Mishka Campbell

We’ve been waiting a long time for a new book from Ann-Marie MacDonald. It’s been 8 years since “Adult Onset” was published and 26 since her incredible debut novel, “Fall on Your Knees”. With only one other novel in between (2003’s “The Way the Crow Flies”), we’re looking at an average of almost 7 years between books! As excited as I was to finally have “Fayne” in my hot little hands, I will admit to feeling somewhat intimidated by its size. This book is a monster, weighing in at 722 pages. Coupled with its very old-fashioned, overly verbose writing, I really needed to set aside some designated reading time to see this one through in a timely manner.

Our story begins with a Baron, Lord Henry, who lives on the estate of Fayne, perched on the Scottish/English border. It is the late 1800s, and Henry is a single father to the Honourable Charlotte Bell, his only surviving child. Charlotte is nearly 12, and has been raised on the land, exploring the moors and the old ways. Highly intelligent, confident and direct, Charlotte appears older than her years. The first third of the book was a delight to read, mostly because we get to know Charlotte, and Fayne, intimately. Immersed in a richly described world of natural wonders, we also learn something of Charlotte’s mother, Marie, through her letters which are interspersed throughout the narrative. Marie and her son, Charles, both died when Charlotte was but an infant and Charles just a toddler. Their loss clearly looms large over the lives of everyone at Fayne but the extent to which they’ve been affected is only gradually revealed in later chapters. A mystery was beginning to unfold but the length of the book indicated I should be prepared for this to be a long game. Unfortunately, some of the major plot points were stretched out so far in their telling as to feel tiresome. Get on with it!! All that said, this book is unique both in its structure as well as its story, even though it could have been reduced by at least 200 pages. One never wants to reach the end of a book and feel that its conclusion is overwrought. However, I truly did love escaping into Fayne. It was a magnificently written, complex tale to behold…I just would have preferred it on a slightly less grandiose scale.

Naturopathic Medicine As Primary Care

Did you know naturopathic doctors are trained to do primary care? The scope of practice for a naturopathic physician ranges from bloodwork, physical exams, and prescription medications to holistic approaches such as dietary strategies, lifestyle change, herbal medicine, nutrition, acupuncture, vitamin/mineral therapies (IVs, injections, and supplements), and more. Some of these tools are what you would experience in a regular GPs office, and some are not. In the context of our current health care crisis naturopathic medicine is an alternative option for those who don’t have a GP.

Naturopathic doctors have a different philosophy and approach than most conventional doctors. Our intake visit is 75-minutes long, which provides time to tell your story and to discuss all the different interconnected factors in your health. In this visit we make connections between different aspects of your health story to understand why you are where you are, and how we can go about supporting your body/mind/spirit by addressing the root causes, not just patching the symptoms. We have the luxury of time to be able to make these connections to come up with a personalized treatment plan specific to your unique concerns and considerations.

Naturopathic doctors can offer conventional standard of care or incorporate holistic and alternative treatment modalities – you get to decide what resonates best for you as an approach to your health care. This is an ideal approach for Salt Spring, where many people value a natural way of living and want this in their health too.

Naturopathic medicine is not covered by MSP, and therefore is private pay or covered by extended benefits. There are pros and cons to that. The advantages are we get to have long visits and can run whatever labwork or imaging we want, right away. Unfortunately naturopathic doctors cannot do referrals – this is a significant limitation on the care we provide (and something we are petitioning the provincial government to change). Often I piece together needed care for my patients between what I can provide and what they can source through an online walk-in clinic such as Telus Health or Get Maple. I provide what can’t be had from the walk in – continuity of care over time and holding the overview of their care with different practitioners or specialists.

Primary care means you can come to us for a health check up, for your “day to day” health needs, or as your first point of contact for a new health concern – we will support you or send you to someone who can. Our NDs at Madrona also offer blood draws for lab work, PAPs and clinical breast exams, IUD insertions, and prescription refills.

Note that while we are a private pay practice, it is important for us to be able to serve our entire community. If you would like to access care with one of our NDs but have financial constraints, please reach out to our Care Coordinator team who can walk you through our accessibility programs.

January Offerings

Tuesday, January 10

SPIRITUAL CONVERSATION — What Feeds our Spirits?

7:00 to 8:30 pm at St. Mary’s Church, 2600 Fulford-Ganges Road

What feeds our spirits? What does not feed our spirits? How do we know when we are being fed and when we are not? How can we be attentive to how we are fed so that we can sustain ourselves in our spiritual lives? Join us for an open and respectful discussion where participants share their own views and experiences and listen attentively to the words of others. Welcome to followers of all paths or none. The evening will be facilitated by Heather Martin and Brian Day.

Tuesday, January 17

SSacred Poetry

7:00 to 8:30 pm at St. Mary’s Church, 2600 Fulford-Ganges Road

The sacred, broadly defined, is expressed in many poems about a wide range of topics. Join us for an evening where participants share and respond to poems that speak to them of the sacred. Come with a poem to share or just come to listen and respond to poems brought by others. The evening will be facilitated by Brian Day.

Valuable public feedback to guide Salt Spring Arts planning

Salt Spring Arts has heard from the community and is ready to start incorporating the feedback into its plans for the future.

The board of directors recently received the results of a public survey the Strategic Planning Committee held during October, along with conducting direct interviews with community stakeholders.

“We got incredible feedback from people, and this is going to directly feed into how we develop our priorities in the coming years,” said Salt Spring Arts executive director Yael Wand, adding, “We want to ensure we’re utilizing our limited resources in the best way possible to serve this community through the arts.”

Results suggest Salt Spring Arts is doing many things well. Public events like the Summer Outdoor Concert Series and core programs like Artcraft are highly valued, while Mahon Hall is wellregarded as the home for arts council events and programs. At the same time, some improvements and tweaks will be healthy for the future and for sustainability – most especially attracting a younger demographic, continuing with family events and programs, producing more events which involve the entire community, and addressing important issues of inclusion and diversity, along with climate change.

the Sweet Spot

The

with Seth Shugar

Louder the Roar, The Deeper the Thorn

In the folktale “Androcles and the Lion” a runaway slave named Androcles escapes from his wicked slave-master and seeks shelter in a cave. He remains safely hidden there until one day an enormous lion appears at the mouth of the cave, roaring ferociously. Trapped, Androcles fears for his life. But as the lion enters the cave, Androcles sees that the great beast is limping; there’s a large thorn in its paw and its pain is so great that it eventually allows Androcles to remove the thorn and tend to its wound. This tames the lion, allowing the two of them to become allies.

I often think of this story when working with couples in conflict. Beneath the roar of discord there’s always tenderness and pain. The loader the roar, the deeper the thorn. And in the fullness of time the same thing always becomes clear: the pain is emanating like starlight from some ancient need that has gone unmet.

How to get down to the pain of the unmet need beneath the roar? Look for the splinter. As Marshall Rosenberg observed, “All criticism, attack, insults, and judgments vanish when we focus attention on hearing the feelings and needs behind a message.”

But how to focus our attention in this way?

First and foremost, by making sure both you, the listener, and they, the speaker, have down-regulated your reactivity. Then there are really only four things we EVER need to do to listen well:

Echo: Echo back what you’ve heard the speaker say in your own words without any add-ons. You don’t have to catch every nuance; just try to capture the essence of what they’ve expressed and then reflect it back, like a glassy lake with no ripples, and check if you got it. “What I’m hearing is… Is that right?” If it is right, ask if there’s more because this conveys both curiosity and care, two of the purest forms of generosity, and one of the ultimate forms of enlightened selfinterest. As research on the Ziegarnik effect shows, what’s incomplete tends to repeat, so if you want to end the circular uproar, you need to get all the important nuggets. How? By asking if there’s more until there isn’t, and by going one topic at a time, practicing with something light or positive to start with.

Validate: Then validate them by explaining why their experience makes sense, even if you privately disagree. “What you’re saying makes sense to me because… Am I getting you?” You don’t need to agree with someone to validate them. You just need to slip out from behind your eyes and look at the situation from behind their eyes, which are colored by their perceptions, their personality, their personal history. “Love,” as Iris Murdoch wrote, “is the extremely difficult realization that someone other than us is real.” Validation real-izes love, which does not require agreement but does demand understanding. If that

sounds disingenuous to you, consider the alternative. You’ve probably been there before. “Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing,” Rumi writes, “there is a field.” Meet there instead. The mass media is the right place for facts grounded in objective reality; intimate relationships are not.

Empathize: Next, take the elevator down from their head into their heart and try to put your finger on 2-3 of their feelings: “I imagine that left you feeling _____, _____ and _____. Did I get that?” Research shows that empathy promotes closeness, increases supportive behavior and fosters both acceptance and forgiveness. “Name it to tame it” is a popular slogan used to summarize additional research that shows that labeling and differentiating feelings reduces emotional intensity as well as the impulsiveness that such intensity breeds. Guessing your partner’s feelings also helps them identify the unmet needs that lie nestled like little recipes or blueprints inside their “negative” feelings. This, in large part, is what negative feelings are: messengers beckoning us to meet unmet needs. And while it’s the speaker’s job to identify what they need, helping them put a finger on what they’re feeling can help them help us.

Request: Finally, invite them to make a request: “What’s one small thing I could have done, or can do in the future, to make this better?” Make sure their request is SMART (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant and time-limited). Then cherry-pick whatever you can agree to, and commit to it. Often, if you’ve listened well enough, the urgency of their request itself will wane in importance because you will have just given them what they really needed: an emphatic “Yes” to the anguished questions that silently repeat themselves beneath the lines of every argument: “Do you see me? Are you there for me? Do you have my back?”

Seth is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, Marital and Family Therapist and Board Certified Life Coach. He works with individuals and couples in private practice. You can reach him at sethshugar@me.com or book a session at www.sethshugar.com

Scopes

Brought to you by our own in-house astrologer who now goes by her numerologically correct name of “Ya Righta”

 Aries

A New Year’s resolution is something that goes in one year and out the other.

 Taurus

Maybe this year will be better than the last… maybe not…

 Gemini

You will be plagued by happy people, but don’t be swayed by them, stay miserable.

 Cancer

It’s time to make old mistakes in different ways. Hurray! Happy New Year!

 Leo

This year may seem to have started as you intended, but what’s happened since, eh? Nothing.

 Virgo

People treat New Year’s like some sort of life-changing event. If your life sucked last year, it’s probably still going to suck tomorrow.

 Libra

Whether you want to or not, this week will have a journey in store for you.

 Scorpio

Your lucky numbers for today are 7, 11, 12, 13, 29, 42. Remember us ;)

 Sagittarius

Bad things are afoot. I mean, can’t you smell it?

 Capricorn

Though many people make a New Year’s resolution, less than 10% will achieve their resolution. Good luck!

 Aquarius

Express yourself, dance and the world will be yours.

 Pisces

Your New Year’s resolution is to be more positive and less sarcastic. Like you won’t screw that up right away.

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