I didn't get around to a typical New Year's post, even though goals are much on my mind right now. However, something came to rest in my soul the Sunday before Christmas and I think it's the sort of thing that needs to be shared.

( I have a confession to make: I need you. )

I would say that 2012 was a year of wonderful changes, except that it doesn't feel quite like that. Many things did change, both without and within me, but change did not define the year.

2012 was a year of living.

( Including several trips--photographs under the cut )

So in 2011 I made a short, casual list of books I really wanted to get read that year. They got read. So in 2012, I made a list of ten and posted it here. If you check that post, you'll see that I only got 8 read, but that's because I started late in the year ( Read more... )

Last year, I made a short, casual list of a few books that I'd been putting off and really wanted to read. And I stuck to it and read them during the first few months of 2011. I like this productivity, and the insights it gave me, and I want to start doing this every year ( Read more... )

Slight warning: metaphor/comparison behind the cut. :)

( Leaving a 'Footprint' )

My friend mistraltoes liked goals much more than resolutions. In 2010, she wrote, "I thoroughly dislike resolutions, which always seem to be about forcing oneself to engage in or refrain from engaging in particular behaviors to an unnatural degree, which seems like setting oneself up to fail. On the other hand, I love goals, where it's much easier to think in ( Read more... )

I'm attempting to make this post from my parents' computer, so it may not be quite as indepth or lengthy as I would like for my usual reflection on the past year and hopes for the future. Nonetheless, here goes.

( 2008: the Year of Waiting )

First, that resolutions meme that's been going around:

In 2007, ( Read more... )

First let me just note that we are having a heavy-duty rainstorm in LA right now. And I do mean heavy. It woke me up this morning, the streets are turning into shallow rivers, and I bet you the folks in Malibu or otherwise on the coast are worrying about their houses sliding away....

I looked at my resolutions post from last year, and ( was surprised by... )

I was going to make a terribly introspective post, but after watching Syriana (excellent film), poking around a bookstore, and stuffing my brain with season 6 Stargate, it's now midnight and I'm not awake enough to do such a post. I'll save it for tomorrow ( Read more... )