◼ Days of Auld Lang What? The origin of the New Year's anthem—and what it means to us. Peggy Noonan WSJ
..."Auld Lang Syne"—the phrase can be translated as "long, long ago," or "old long since," but I like "old times past"—is a song that asks a question, a tender little question that has to do with the nature of being alive, of being a person on a journey in the world. It not only asks, it gives an answer...