A New Year's Pledge

This year I pledge:

- To be awesome.

- To be an artist, to have an artists heart, to make art. A lot of it.

- To free myself to feel again, to see the beauty that is shouting out at me in even the smallest nuances of life, and to feel whatever emotions they evoke in me.

- To be a writer, to write out what I feel, and to make up a ton of new words for all the new feelings I experience.

- To be a student, always and forever. I will read and learn and be my own teacher. This brain needs stretching.

- To find a way to always be moving forward.

- To find the confidence, strength, and motivation that I've lost somewhere along the way. I will face problems head on, I will confront when confrontation is necessary, I will be silent when silence is needed, I will be bold and tactful, I will be strong.

This world is big and scary, but I'm ready now.

Autumnal Rhythms

Riding the rhythms of the seasons, we know them all too well, the ups, the downs and the music that comforts us during this time when both change and constancy are somehow equally being forced upon us.

Some personal Autumnal favorites:

Wilco: Sky Blue Sky

For fall road trips to visit loved ones in far away places.

Bowerbirds: Upper Air

For bonfire nights and getting lost in corn mazes and walks in the crisp fall air.

Gregory and the Hawk: Moenie and Kitchi

For time spent on the front porch swing watching the world change, trying not to get stuck in the past.