Happy New Year ~!

Tonight for me is not a party night like it used to be when I was younger. Oh I am drinking a fine Jockamo IPA from the Abita brewery, I just prefer a slower, more thoughtful pace these days.

jockamo

I’ve made no resolutions, although this time of year does make me reflective. Making goals is always beneficial, maybe I will over the next month or so as I ponder my next move. It certainly won’t hurt if I really plan the big changes that my career currently needs. But I take things one step at a time, and I’ve started up at the gym recently, a first for sticking to it even this long. I have some other things brewing which have been on my plate for a while. Maybe I’ll get over my online shyness to share, but maybe not. Even though I know my privacy is decreasing with each year, it’s still hard for me to accept and I’ve been fighting personal openness ever since us crazy kids moved to that military fort in the North Sea when privacy and security became our business.

I have no ground-shaking thoughts for your personal journey in life, but I do have a clever graphic from Sean’s, which is always a good starting point for reflection:

fish evolution

Maybe you’ve moved beyond the religion debates, I feel I have mostly, except when I catch myself pleading to the vapors that if I’m good could things just work out the way I want them to. But even doing something as simple as watching a movie called Slumdog Millionaire I remember that most people haven’t moved beyond this powerful, invisible force of destruction called religion. If you want to have beliefs, spirituality, a-ok but don’t organize or even participate in a system that punishes anyone for being different. It’s that simple. By participating, you give credence to the idea-set than any distributed identity espouses.

I wish us all a happy new year, and a long and prosperous journey.