as fast as it came, it went. this year seems to have melted like a hershey bar in the sweltering phoenix summer. yet even the sun seems to be clinging to the dawn, although low on the morning horizon it peeks its weary head out of the morning fog each day keeping the quilt of winter doom far out of reach in the safety of its glow for the residents of the valley to awake to frozen glistening mornings.
but when i look at the utter lack of postings this year when i vowed to be "on top of things" i hang my head for a moment on unkept promises and broken dreams (cue sad violin). but then i think of where i was this time last year in utter chaos and running myself rampant, and a realize (cue motivational piano solo) it's been an amazingly full and productive year. i thought it would take me years to get to this point from where i was. and it only took, well... (a) year. i asked today what hidden hurdles lay ahead and where i thought i would have to stand guard, instead i was told i have an army to fight for my case. not too shabby, when for years i've been the one fighting. the salmon against the stream, the sapling in the snow.
to distant worlds and back, more times than one, this year was a great success. maybe not the most stable, or most graceful. but a year of learning and of settling. a year of trying and (soon) a year of succeeding. the east was magnificent, the west was monumental. and here, hear, in the middle i stand content, and that is a wonderful place to be. cheers to number thirty, steadily approaching. i think i'm ready to take it on, that whole huge rest of existence. o wonder! o brave new world! that has such people in it!