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January 16, 2017
Volume 27 Number 2
January 16, 2017
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Rooster wishes
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he past year was a bad one for me, but I’m a lethargy.” Her hopes for others in 2017, the year of
Fire Rooster and this is my year. I hope the fire and energy: “Learn all you can, be strong and
Rooster Year is a good one for everyone else, confident, and strut your brilliant colors!” Allegri
too. The lucky numbers are 5, 7, and 8 — which, also created the beautiful painting for this column.
interestingly enough, I’ve always considered lucky,
Ronni Lacroute, a teacher and arts enthusiast in
especially 5 — my favorite number. I’m told to avoid McMinnville, Oregon, remains optimistic about the
1, 3, and 9; I’ve never liked those much, either.
Fire Rooster, saying, “this feisty Rooster is
In the Year of the Rooster, my
trustworthy, with a strong sense of
hopes are simple. I don’t want to lose
timekeeping and responsibility at
the health insurance I obtained
work — he will get the job done!”
through the Affordable Care Act. I
A close friend since the ’80s, radio
hope my family and loved ones
producer Catherine Sifter, lives in
maintain good health. I hope people
Grass Valley, California. She re-
living in the streets and those
cently changed her life — in her 60th
struggling to get by on a low income
year — and she’s “firing up the deter-
will be better cared for and the class
mination to act when the timing is
divide doesn’t increase. And as an
right and conserve energy for when
artist, as always, I hope people will
it’s most needed.” She studied tai chi
attend my three theater events
and qi gong for 15 years. For 2017,
scheduled in 2017.
she has made a life change to teach so
Roosters are confident, obser- Image courtesy of artist Kathy
she can commit to “sharing these
vant, hardworking, resourceful, Delumpa Allegri.
arts for the benefit and wellbeing of
courageous, and talented. I happen to know a great my students, my community, and beyond.”
many people who exemplify these words. I asked a
Porsche Ing, a writer and artist in Portland,
few of them via Facebook about their wishes and responded the most enthusiastically, saying she’s
dreams for the Year of the Rooster.
been waiting for the Year of the Rooster “forever!”
Simon Tam, the bassist and founder of The Slants She believes it’s a time of rebirth “for our hopes,
music group, and Kat Templeton, a visual artist in dreams, and aspirations to all come true” and, on a
Vancouver, Washington, are also Roosters who are scale of 1 to 10, with 1 being the best, she says this
positive about their Rooster Year.
year “marks a ‘1’ year of love, peace, and harmony,”
Tam has been fighting for the right to trademark which is “refreshing from our ‘9’ year last year of
the band’s name for years. He hopes it will be “a year endings and chaos.” Ing bought her sisters and
of justice” for the group and mark the end of the mother a “good luck rooster amulet” and seven
legal case. A Supreme Court oral hearing is sched- Chinese calendars from Chinatown for family and
uled on January 18. He also believes 2017 will mark friends. She then offered the following poem. I could
a drastic contrast in our government. “No matter not agree more with her joyful rooster wish.
what happens,” he says, “I hope our communities
May the Phoenix Rooster bestow upon our world
will help inspire a path forward for all Americans.”
New beginnings, like the sunrise brings
Templeton hopes people will “courageously aspire
the promise of morning each day …
to be passionate and persevere to inspire others”
As the Rooster cries out — may we too awaken
while remaining imaginative and creative and
to our fierce purpose and dynamic destiny.
championing social change. She says, “Roosters like
May magic find us living our dreams,
myself challenge and question, analyze and
not just for tomorrow — but forever
progress forward with strong will and determina-
in joy, peace, and harmony — with a
tion, but we do it in style!”
flock of true friends and loving family
to encourage and surround us.
Phil Duong, a Portland friend since the ’90s, bids
farewell to the Year of the Monkey, a year that
May our heart’s wishes take flight upon
highlighted the Monkey’s “impetuous temper, its
the wings of Infinite fortune,
irritability.” He offers this wish for the new Lunar
prosperity, and creativity …
Year: “Bring the promise of rebirth, transformation,
And may the most MAGICAL
justice — a year of resting, waiting, watching, and of
Immortal rebirth light a fire
acting when able and when the time is right.”
under, around, and within our
Kathy Delumpa Allegri, a visual artist in Port-
world to show us the way of
land, wrote, “The Rooster crows to awaken us from
Endless Love …
T
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