My goodness, I just made a little collage to recap the year, and am feeling quite nostalgic for 2008. Poor 08 is going to be remembered as a real speculum poke of a year, but we had a pretty good run personally. A couple big firsts, a few nice trips, a beautiful fall, a new president I'm happy about...things are good. You can tell I've been free to move around town this week, my darkling outlook is banished for now. Honestly, out the back windows you can't see any snow at all! Life is good!Seriously though, if you haven't already, take a few moments and take a look back at the year. Little things I didn't remember kept springing to mind. That's the whole point of all this isn't it? The blogging, the photos, the scrapbooks. To remember the little things that would otherwise be lost in the shadow of European travel, presidential elections, starting school and birthdays. I keep a wall calendar that I jot a note about the day in the square of each date. Not only am I way obsessed with weird things apparently, but I have a really lovely life. I'm happy and grateful and fulfilled. I hope you all can say the same, or if you can't, you're able to look at the obstacles to that and decide if they are hills worth dying on, or, if they are, you are able to find solutions to them. I'm only making the one resolution this year...to try and live a less consumer-y life. I'm convinced we are doing irrevocable harm for no reason outside of minor convenience and bad habit. Not only to the environment, which is truly gonna suck when we wake up and realize we've blown our one shot, but also to the community that shares it with us. I don't want to raise stupid, bovine people any more. Let's raise thinkers. Let's raise aware, analytical, logical citizens from now on. Ok? Good. That's agreed.
Happy everything in 2009 public. I hope the best of everything is out there for you this year!
