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NEXT CHINESE NEW YEAR WILL FEATURE THE WOOD DRAGON

 Yesterday, two lions blessed 15 Craigside. Tuesday is for nostalgia, and today I revert to my posting of  23January2012, commemorating the Year of the Dragon .  For the Western world, this was year 2012 of the Gregorian Calendar.  For China, this was year 4710 or 4709 or 4649, depending on the source.  To quote from this posting: This is the year of the dragon, which is the most favorable, luckiest and revered zodiac sign.  Dragons are confident, generous, colorful, gifted and operate on a grand scale.  Hmm...no wonder I am a dragon.  Both  weddings and births will spike this year in the Orient .  We dragons, though, can be conceited, tactless, and solitary .   The significance of 2012 was that this was the year of the Water Dragon, which comes about only every 60 years.  Surely propitious for the Blue Revolution.  I was thinking back further, and 1952 was during my 6th and 7th grades when the previous Water Dragon reigned, and my life then was okay.  However, I learned a few days ago