nn                                                                                                                                                           Слава Україні! Героям Слава!

                 Which is Ukrainian for "Glory to Ukraine! To the heroes, glory!"

Ní neart go cur le chéile 

We are better together.

Ryan New Year 2023 begins in Singapore dis year, so in good Asian tradition but with Celtic clarity we heartily wish you Beannachtam na Feile Padraig Lah! “Happy St. Patrick’s Day Lah” (Singlish emphasis added lah) and Happy Ryan New Year! As the festive moment finalizing RY22 is nigh, we left our happy shipboard home for lo this last month having navigated from Sydney via Bali, Saigon, and other exotic locales to the Lion City, the ultimate merrimentocracy, as it’s all about the food. Hawker centers here we come! But I digress as I digest. This year’s Annual Wee Epistle 2023 (AWE 23) awaits and follows recounting as it does annually the ack ack activities of the wee but wider band of Amer-Irish explicably known as the Ryans (NGY – no grandchildren yet). All Long Time AWE-Inspired Readers (ALTAIRs) will no doubt recall with some trepidation the origins of this annual annoyance in that God’s blessings of progeny via procreation twice so encumbered our Christmastime as to cause serious social disconnection, which when coupled with good Irish guilt, compelled compensatory compliments for cards, correspondence, and calls to commence consistently and coupled conveniently at and with that most festive of all moments, St. Paddy’s Day!

Click Here to read the AWE 23 in its entirety in PDF format

   Aboard the Sentosa Cable Car above Viking Neptune Harbor Front, Singapore


                                        Below, in the Mekong Delta, Vietnam


                             Bottom:  St. Paddy's Day RY22 in Washington DC

But before I get too far ahead of me self I must say:

Beannachtam na Feile Padraig Lah! 
Happy St. Patrick’s Day Lah
 
and Happy Ryan New Year!