Sit Tight

It's been six months since my last post. Triple yikes. As most of you know my life has been jam-packed with business...40 hours a week at the school and 2-3 days at the organic farm. And playing softball badly with an awesome team. I feel that so much has changed and so much has just stayed the same. Lately I've been taking a step back to really look at my life and where I want to head next. I think I kept expecting everything to fall into place in one of the many corners of the world I touched down in, But surprise, surprise, no dice. Now, as I look at what steps come next, the focus is going to be less on what is immediately gratifying and exciting and more on what is fulfilling in the long run. But that's a bigger question and damned if I know the answer to it.

I forsee...magic.

My skis were still warm from the wax when I loaded them in the car. I leased some boots, Steve adjusted the bindings, and all the rest of my gear has been loaded in a bag since about 2 days after returning from Argentina. Am I ready to go skiing on Sunday? I do believe so.

11 days in

Let's evaluate my January goals. So far, so good. Not perfect, but decent. I've managed to write every night and do a picture & paragraph for each day. The walk/jog/run thing hasn't worked out, but I biked about 30 miles last week, so I think that was pretty good considering. I finished one book and started another. All in all, pretty good. And now a couple of my favorite pictures.

I resolve?

I usually don't make New Year's Resolutions. I just feel so pressured to succeed with generally-unreasonable goals and then explode. But this year, I was very anxious to keep the ball of personal growth rolling. So I have made what I feel to be some modest goals. The catch is that they are only for one month, most of them. If, after a month, I still like them, I'll keep going for another month. If not, it was a month's worth of trying something out. (Some of these goals were taken from/inspired by this blog.) 1) Document every day with one photograph and one paragraph. Pretty self-explanatory.
2) Define one long-term goal and work on it for 30 minutes every day. Writing. Blogging, journalling, poetry, prose, whatever. This round is just going to be about making a habit.
3) Run 12 miles a week. Multiply by 1.5 if walking and by 4 if biking.
4) The 8th Avenue Bibliophages have committed to reading 24 books by the end of the year. Every time we finish a book, we put a dollar in a jar and at the end of the year we each buy a new book and a new books to donate somewhere.
Other plans for the year include reorganizing the whole garage to make room for seedlings, composting, gardening, as a house we plan to host at least one party/dinner/movie a month, guitar lessons, cooking more, canning, finding people to jam with, etc. etc. etc. We'll see how it turns out! Cheers!