I’m borrowing this from Fiona Ritchie’s website because it’s not often I see mention of our one real family New Year tradition:
Open the Door
Open the door for the auld year,
It is the pairtin-time
Open the door for the new year
And lat the bairn win hame.Bundle your winter’d joy and grief
On the back o’ the year that’s dune:
Open your hert for the new life
And lat the bairn come in.by William Soutar
Title: Open the Door
Source: The Poems of William Souter, Scottish Academic Press, 1988
How wonderful. My dad had something going with the door thing. I love doing it even if it means I need to stay awake. I just barely made it happen this year.