Just a few meandering thoughts on this Christmas Eve

I love this part of 'A Charlie Brown Christmas'.  Throughout the episode, there's this crazy energy.  No one sits down, no one breathes.  But outside, in the crystal clear air, Charlie Brown finds a moment to connect with his own heart, and, hearing Linus' words inside himself, is at peace.

Take a moment to breath it all in; they're only this young once.  I'm not saying the magic won't be there in the coming years, but time has a confounding way of transforming it so as to make it nearly unrecognizable.  

I hope that this Christmas season brought you what you desperately needed.  If your heart is broken, may it find comfort.  If you are feeling desperately disconnected from humanity, start with you.  Figure out how to get your head to talk to your heart again, and from there, you may find that the tools you need are already with you.

Merry Christmas, y'all.

Water tower on a Sunday afternoon

What is this, 2002?

It's been a while.  A fairly long decade, in fact.

Which brings to me to what makes starting again so difficult...there's simply no conceivable way to summarize what's happened over the past 3,650 days.  What's more, I haven't much of a penchant for reliving the past whether in deed or, in this project's objective, word.  

So we'll start fresh, right here, right now.  Keeping it simple with the same domain I've had since the year 2000.  Dumped all of the old blog posts (all 415 of them) into the archive, and maybe...just maybe...some of them will resurface in the coming weeks, months, and years.

Suffice it to say that I am grateful for new starts, creative energies, and noise cancelling headphones.  And not necessarily in that order.

Light, shape, debris

There's a bit more depth to this shot as you spend a bit of time looking at it. The opposite side peeks through the middle cylinder, and the weeks worth of dust muddies the outside.