Goodbye 2006:
2006 has been one difficult year: heartbreak, loss, professional reevaluation, family health scares. It’s also been one of bold aventures, impending opportunities, limitless possibiltiy and friends old and new. In spite of that mixed blessing, I am not sad to see it go.
But ya know what? I’m still here, battered, wounded but wiser. Ten months ago, all I could think about was how I would whether this enormous loss and still be me. Today all I can think about was how I did. Tonight I’ll be in the company of friends and loved ones. Tomorrow is, as a wise boy and tiger once put it, a “big white sheet of paper to draw on…The world looks brand new…A day full of possibilities.”
I’ve got big plans for it which I’ll discuss later. For now, I’m thinking about that phrase “when the student is ready, the master appears.” The other day I heard a song which grabbed everything I’m feeling in 4 proud minutes.
“Please don’t ask me how.
I’m doing what I’m doing now.
It just all makes sense somehow.
Let’s go back and start again.
Where you going, where you’ve been?
Seats for the wall flowers and their friends.
Who turned out angels in the end.”
–“Angels in the End” by The Good Sons
Welcome home 2007. I’ve been expecting you.