My 2015 moments, never to be forgotten.
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Happy New Year you lovely people, thank you for the company the last 12 months. Wishing you all a healthy, happy 2016.
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:-) Happy new year Mister!
3 hours and 50 minutes more! And I’m watching a sad BBC doc on penguins.
Happy New Year LL!
I JUST PINNED THIS AMAZING VIDEO TO MY FB………………..THIS…………………..IS WHY WE WERE ALL BORN!
So beautiful….MsChipsss….brings tears to my eyes and so much emotion to my heart….how will it be without Our President being President….it will be hard…
those two pics,
the President singing amazing grace..and the touching of hands between the President and FLOTUS were a few of my pics for pic of the year…
{{Prettyfoot}}
Happy New Year Chips!
And the very same to you, {{Dakota}}!
Oh Chips thank you for being here for all of us. I don’t even want to think about where we would all be if you hadn’t started this community for all of us so we could express our love of this country and our exceptional President, First Family and all this administration. We all will be looking forward to 2016 as a year beyond measure. We will all be in awe of our great President.
{{{{{{{mtmarilyn}}}}}}}} Happy new year!!!
Happy New Year to you too. Thank you for being here for all so homebodies tonight.
That’s suppose to be us homebodies. These auto correct can’t read my mind correctly.
Happy New Year’s to all of you lovely people. You really gave me strength and courage this year and I appreciate all of you very much. Thanks for all the wonderful pictures. They brought back wonderful memories. The one that means the most to me is the one of Senator Pinckney’s funeral. That was the last television my husband and I watched together. He was so thrilled to hear President Obama one more time. Also, when the choir sang “It is Well” he said “That is what I want at my funeral.” and my best friend sang it, with the entire gathering singing the chorus. That is a precious memory to me, and it solidified for him what would be sung a month later, his wish, his desire. I am doing better, I think, still missing him, but beginning to build a little.
<3 Carolyn _/|\_ <3
Carolyn, I always think of you in my morning meditations. Sending you love and strength. Tomorrow is a new day and New Year.
Good 2016 to you, Carolyn, blessings to you and your family after your unfathomable loss this year (still 2015 in US time zones west of EST).
Endless admiration for your fortitude, and always enjoy hearing about the wonderful times you shared with your gracious husband.
My photo of the year vote was for the hug and kiss between President Obama and Vice President Biden at Beau’s memorial service. The Selma photograph represented iconic resolve, but to me the unabashed unity of the Executive Office that PBO and @VP demonstrate is a model for our democracy going forward.
Happy New Year.
Too tired to post individual greetings to everyone, but Happy New Year, arapaho - and everyone else - and I agree with your choice of photo of the year! Here’s to a great 2016 for all! Goodnight.
Happy New Year Ms Oboomer!
Well, hello there, CR!!!! Happy New Year to you, darlin’!
<3 What a poignant memory, carolyn. Two beautiful hymns filled with meaning. God be with you as you step out into this new year.
HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE…
I have tried to catch up, but I am WWWAAAAAYYYYY behind! So before the new years is in and I want to wish you all a very happy and productive 2016!
Chips…not sure what to add to the previous comments about this wonderful blog! Without this haven, I am not sure where I would be during this time of the Obama Presidency…so THANK YOU!
Stay safe everyone…we have another beautiful year to support our “lame duck” president! (BTW…funny that we do not hear that term anymore!)
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{{{{{Marlz}}}}} Happy new year!!
<3 {{{{{ :bear: Chipsticks :bear: }}}}} <3
Hugs back at ya Mighty P, may your 2016 be perfect!
It may be!! :)
Thank you for your wonderful 2015 moments, Chips……and thank you for this wonderful place. I come here often and am always glad I did. Thank you to all who contribute your knowledge and caring thoughts. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year {{Carol}}, and thank you.
{{{{Chips}}}}}, thanks for the memories. Happy New Year. Love you madly. xoxo LH
Love ya madlier Ladyhawke :-) Happy new year!
Why on earth was I thinking I’d be able to stay awake until midnight?? HaHa! Powering down fast over here on the left coast, guess I’ll gauge midnight by NYC time zone! See y’all next year! Thank you, each and everyone, for all the Light, Love, Caring, Laughter and Wit - a most charming and gratifying place to have dwelt in 2015!! {{{{{ TOD }}}}}. For sure I would not have fared too well without the compassion and empathy so freely given here. <3
I don’t post much here, no one on the site really knows me, but I do read every single day. To say I am grateful for TOD is a bit like saying I love you to my grandsons-it never really translates because your heart is just too full for words,
I wrote a note to friends and family today-which includes TO~
Old Chinese Proverb~ “The way you do anything is the way you do everything”
No need for resolutions~ 2016 is really a continuation of our lives. Time moves on and with God’s grace, we move with it
Let Peace,Tolerance, Forgiveness, Redemption and Kindness with a healthy dose of laughter be our first and last thought of each day.
Change happens every day of our lives. We know because we met a man that changed our lives so profoundly we have come to realize it’s a daily walk we are fortunate to make-one year rolls into the next. We survived and thrived against voracious obstructionists odds. He epitomized peace, tolerance, forgiveness redemption, and undeniable kindness and kept humor as his sword.
Here’s to tomorrow and the next and next and next…maybe our President knew that old Chinese proverb from birth-“The way you do anything is the way you do everything”-and he did it just right-Obama style..
Bravo! Well spoken, well read! :)
Thank You MightyPamela-so many good people here on TOD. What to do when he leaves office???? We will keep on walkin, Keep on talkin, keep on tryin’ we will keep on keepin ON!
Never ever look around!
THISSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!…
HAPPY NEW YEAR…
Amen
Happy New Year, Jody, and what a beautiful thought to begin the year with!
Thank You Maryl1 We do love this President!!!
Happy New Year, TODville.
Fellow west coaster tweet, just moments ago, LOL. ;)
Hmmm.
Just noticed @jonfavs is in Hawaii now.
Hope he’s been able to join in on some #FirstFamily vacation fun. :)
HAPPY NEW YEAR……2016
Beautiful, prettyfoot! It reminds me of 2000 when they broadcast the New Year celebrations as midnight struck around the world. I loved that.
yes…i know of what you speak
HAPPY NEW YEAR Chips & TOD!!!!
Well done Ms. Chips for a fabulous year and a fabulous collage of voice and images to round it out.
Bravi to you, NW, and others for such great work!
woohoo Happy New Year Chips & all of TOD ~ wishing all of us the very best possible 2016 and thank you for always being here, everyone of you throughout 2015!
Happy New Year to the entire TOD community! Best wishes for a 2016 that realizes all your aspirations.
Happy New Year TOD friends. Praying for good health, happiness and love for each one of you in 2016 and beyond. This will be a bittersweet year as we watch our President complete his second term. Let’s savor every moment of it together!!
Good 2016 to you, GAMP.
My thoughts exactly — my New Year’s resolution is to savor every moment of President Obama’s final (:( ) year in office, while eagerly anticipating how much good he will do for Americans once he leaves office. He and Michelle will demonstrate how much change/progress individual citizens can contribute to America and its democracy.
I second that!
Happy New Year to everyone.
Yes this gif is huge, but there are a lot of you all over the world. ;) :) (Plus I didn’t know how to make it smaller.)
Thanks to all of you TODers for a wonderful and supportive year; I wish you all a wonderful, healthy 2016!
Happy New Year to the First Family.
It’s 12:12 a.m. and I am filled with gratitude for this circle of kindness, smarts, humor, compassion, insight, wisdom, fun, and goodness, a circle of good inspiring people I am humbled and grateful to know and on whom I depend for light, knowledge, and spiritual tune-ups. Thank you Chips for this another year of TOD. Thank you everyone here, putting logs on the fire, bringing snacks, pointing out the constellations and passing out essential hugs and energy, with jokes. TOD is essential to my health and well being. May this year glow with blessings, on TOD and on our President, his family and everyone who stands with him. These photos have transformed my perspective on the year 2015. Happy New Year!
Happy New Year, TOD ohana.
I just wished @angryblacklady a happy 7th day.
hahaha,,,did you now,,,
Thank you Chips
Happy New Year to the TOD Ohana!
Still only 7:30 here, so just finished supper, listening to our neighbors’ kids firecrackers, and prepping my most resonant pots and pans for a big banging midnight! Our First Family is probably listening to the same sounds, and enjoying a warm, balmy evening by the ocean.
Happy New Year, Susanne.
See @jonfavs tweet upthread (LOL). Maybe he’ll join the First Family in ringing in 2016. Warms my heart to think so — he was so instrumental to then-Senator Obama’s success during the 2007-08 campaign, and seems fitting for him to be part of the celebration leading into the final year of Barack Obama’s presidency.
We know that if it were possible, Barack Obama would have done everything himself during that iconic, historic, inspirational campaign, but that’s not humanly possible. Among his other talents, PBO has a keen knack for identifying real talent that is not dependent on Ivy League credentials (e.g., Jon Favreau, David Plouffe, Josh Earnest, etc.), appreciates and rewards true loyalty.
I feel certain there is a wonderful gathering of people who the first family feels entirely at home with, all joining in on celebrating this momentous presidency in its final year. I hadn’t noticed that tweet- thanks for bringing it to my attention, Arapaho! You’re right, PBO has changed the face of action in Washington, and the world will never be the same! Oh, how I wish this presidency could go on and on and on! But I know our first family is ready to move into their next chapter, and I have a strong feeling it will bring them back to Hawaii again and again :)
A Very Happy New Year to you Beloved TODers. You make life so much more enjoyable with your wit, passion and fierceness. Thanks for traveling this Obama journey and so much more with me. Cheers!!!! May your wildest Dreams come true this year. Happy 2016! ” Let’s break a leg”!!!!
Happy New Year Chipsticks!
Thank you, Chips, NerdyW, all BTs and everyone who posts comments here.
Heartfelt gratitude for posting information and insight not readily available elsewhere.
Reminder that Los Angeles is also “braving” the media-induced terrorism fear tonight:
Blwyddyn newydd dda i bawb! 🎉🎉💖💖 My deepest gratitude and my highest blessings to everyone.
Happy New Year Chips, and my TOD family. Chips, you have given me so much joy from this beautiful space that you created. I will ever be so grateful for the intellect, the compassion, the truthfulness, the inspiration, and the writings of all those who have given me so much to think about during the presidency of PBO.
((((((((((((((((((((((((( Lots of hugs and thanks to you, Chips))))))))))))))))))))))HZ
{{{HZ}}} - Have a wonderful 2016!
(((((((((((vc)))))))))))) May you have a beautiful and joyous New Year. HZ
Happy New Year Chips and TOD.
Peace, blessings, and renewed healing to all the TOD community this coming year. In the example of our President let us be ruled by hope and not fear as we confront the challenges of 2016.
Well folks, it behoves me to mosey off line as I’m on breakfast detail in a short while.
From the bottom of my heart I wish each one of you a 2016 filled with joy, progress, improved health….. and fewer hate-filled types!
HAPPY NEW YEARRRRRRR…May your joys and blessings be many and your hurts and disappointments be few…TOD to the world…
Happy West Coast New Year TOD!
Thank you Chips and everyone who is part of this wonderful community!
Love, light, healing and health to all!
Also Happy Mew Year to Danny, Kasper, Nickelby and all the kitty, doggie and other furry friends of TOD!
Happy New year to all at TOD! It’s been a great year under the leadership of Chips and Nerdy and all the BT’s. Photos are so delightful. Heartfelt wishes for a great year ahead. We had the New year’s baby this year. So happy to enjoy the pleasure of this in my last year of work.
Thank You Ms. Chips. That was exquisite.
Happy New Year my fellow TOD’ers!!!
Happy New Year to you Chips, Danny and to all the TOD Family. This has been such an eventful year and I want to thank all the family here that kept me and others on an even keel. The picture and song to start of the this post was “Amazing” Thank you from the bottom of my heart Chips.
Love you all.
Happy New Year everyone…
i can’t get enough of this video…brings me to tears every time….oh how i am going to miss the President
Why in the world would CBS Morning News hire that Peggy Noonan on their show. I guess it’s not to be surprise, they have that Frank Luntz up there too. This will cause me to stop watching.
Morning!
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