Querido Richard,
Yours was a wonderful gift to start the new year, a pesar de los trumpotes y trumpitos de este mundo!
Otros Mundos son Posibles 👍
Gracias amigo querido, wishing you, your family, friends and all earthlinks the best of life and enough light to defy the shadows ahead ☺
Abrazos from Fairfield, iowa
Azril
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On Sun, Jan 1, 2017 at 11:39 AM, Richard Harris <rharris@csumb.edu> wrote:
Dear Family and Friends | Querida Família | Queridos AmigosI

hope you are all well and enjoying this holiday season. For several years, I have sent the following 2 video links to my family and friends around the world with my best wishes for the coming new year.

At these links there are two brief videos of a "flash mob" of musicians and singers performing for a surprised but delighted audience.

The first flash mob took place in the city of Sabadell in Catalonia, Spain. More than 100 people participated in this surprise performance of Beethoven's famous Ode to Joy. You can view it by clicking on the following link
I'm sharing this video again because it never fails to bring tears to my eyes, no matter how many times I've seen it. Beethoven's famous Ode to Joy has been adopted as the anthem of the European Union and it expresses some of the best ideals and hopes of humanity -- unity in diversity, freedom, peace, solidarity, and love of nature. 

The realization of these ideals are not only what the people of Europe need but what all humanity needs. This continues to be my deepest wish for the future; followed by my wish that all of you will be blessed with Love, Health, Happiness, Peace and Prosperity throughout the new year of 2017.

For the same reason, I include the second brief flash mob video at the link below. This flash mob performance took place in the food court of the World Trade Center in Beijing, China. I encourage you to view it. It has a special ending, and I hope you will enjoy it as much as I do;
The talented performers in this flash mob are the members of the Taiwan Surprise Chorus.

And for my political friends and fellow Bernie Sanders supporters, I would like to share with you the following brief video "Do you hear the people?"


I hope you have a very good year in 2017, despite all the things that are wrong in the world., and so I wish you a Happy New Year, Feliz Año Nuevo, 新年快樂, Feliz Ano Novo, Bonne Année, Chuc Mung Nam Moi and Hau'oli Makahiki Hou (Hawaiian for Happy New Year)


Richard L Harris, PhD
Professor Emeritus of Global Studies
California State University Monterey Bay
Managing Editor
Journal of Developing Societies