... to face the challenges this New Year will undoubtedly foist upon each and every one of us without exception ?
Some of our number have already been challenged - in the wake of freak climatic events in Mindanao - others [if you're British] closer to home ... where, during the first week of 2012, gale~force storms - the most severe since the January Gales of 1968 - have battered our coastline, leaving many folk without electricity ... albeit fortunately on this occasion, with their lives.
