And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.
—Rainer Maria Rilke
The Masked Ball by Charles Hermans, which depicts one of the all-night society masked balls of the late nineteenth century.
Station Squabble, a shot of two mice at a London subway station.
Sam Rowley/Wildlife Photographer of the Year.
Shoulders by Naomi Shihab Nye
Burning the Old Year by Naomi Shihab Nye
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