If you are reading this, you are alive and that is pretty darn good. 
In a world that barely promises and rarely delivers fairness, my hope is that we each do our individual and collective best to even out the world’s woes.
Let’s reflect on the last year and look forward to a new year by listing concrete ways we have made the world a better place.
Because, really, what is the meaning of being alive?
warmly, marcy
livingly dying 
My wishes for a productive and rewarding New Year as you face another round of challenges and treatments. Your posts have made this world a better place by sharing your experience and positive approach to life.
Felicidades Marcy!
Happy New Year Marcy! Naw Ruz, Chinese New Year, and Cambodian New Year await your lovely presence. Love, Adele
Happy New Year, with love to Marcy! from Tina Frost
Amen, Marcy…and it is good to see you this New Year.
Sending love and light for the New Year!
Happy Happy New Year to you!
Happy New Year to you and Mike. I am not sure if I have made the world a better place, but I treasure each of the days I have with my family. May you and Mike share many more together.
Dearest Marcy…I’m not surprised that your new year’s message is a call for making the world a better place. Thank you for a reminder that we all need to hear and heed. I think I’ve done a few good deeds to improve our world – thanks in part to your inspiration. I just wish the bad guys would take a little break. And now I can hear you say – find something in common and work with them!
Happy New Year Marcy…….your example has been a wonderful example for me. Not just as an activist, though that too, but perhaps more importantly, you’re ur steadfastness and toughness, tendered by a huge heart. It’s difficult to know what to say sometimes. I have told you do many times, how much I love you, yet it still feels right to repeat it. I love you.
WIshing you a lovely healing year Marcy, following your truth and without knowing it, helping others to do the same. WIshing you mega tons of love…. The gift is in the giving……. and thank you for the reminder to do our best – no matter how small or large to reach out to our fellow man, and our planet. Much love……………. Charlene
Right on message! And you certainly have made and continue to make the world a better place. We are all richer for having you with us and we plan to keep you. xo
I just watched the Stephen Hawking movie The Theory of Everything and he had such inspiring quotes. “However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.” Another one was “The Simpson’s is the best thing on American TV.” OK, maybe so but the best quote of his many that I like is “The past, like the future is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.” Marcy, I love the way you extend your possibilities.
And I love the way you cheer us on and model possibilities by staying fully alive. Thank you, dear Carol!
Marcy Westerling http://livinglydying.com/
Happy New Year and Peace to us all!