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lagilmanAny year in which I can say that my father dying - not unexpectedly, but of sudden and unexpected causes - wasn't the most emotionally gut-wrenching thing to happen is, to put it mildly, a year I have no interest in revisiting.
That's not to say it didn't have good moments.
I've written a lot. For various reasons, little of that has seen publication (yet) but I can feel my skills readying to level up, and that's always a positive. Scary, but a positive.
I started working at two new wineries, and have learned a huge amount about wine-making, winery-running, and yes, about beer, too. And I've done it in company of interesting people with utterly different backgrounds from my own.
I started dating again, after a self-imposed 'figure my shit out' moritorium. That's been...interesting.
And life here in the Pacific Northwest continues to feel like home, in a way I'd hoped-for, but not entirely trusted, when I took the leap and moved out here two years ago. I'm not going to say this is where I'll be henceforth and forever, but I can't see myself budging any time soon.
So I guess I'm ending 2016 a little sadder, a little wiser, and a more than a little more tired. But I'm also surrounded by good people, faced with interesting challenges, and supported by a community both physical and virtual who are ready to march with me into the battles of 2017.
In the past, on this last day leading into First Night I have made a wish for us all, that the very best of this year past be the worst that we face in the new. This year, I leave you with a different wish: that in 2017 we find that we are better than we feared, stronger than we'd hoped, and more compassionate than we'd ever dreamed.
*raises glass* To our health and our well-being, physical, mental, emotional and financial, from this house to yours.
And now I am off to see out the old with new friends, and tomorrow I will have old(er) friends to my home to see in the new. It seems apt...
That's not to say it didn't have good moments.
I've written a lot. For various reasons, little of that has seen publication (yet) but I can feel my skills readying to level up, and that's always a positive. Scary, but a positive.
I started working at two new wineries, and have learned a huge amount about wine-making, winery-running, and yes, about beer, too. And I've done it in company of interesting people with utterly different backgrounds from my own.
I started dating again, after a self-imposed 'figure my shit out' moritorium. That's been...interesting.
And life here in the Pacific Northwest continues to feel like home, in a way I'd hoped-for, but not entirely trusted, when I took the leap and moved out here two years ago. I'm not going to say this is where I'll be henceforth and forever, but I can't see myself budging any time soon.
So I guess I'm ending 2016 a little sadder, a little wiser, and a more than a little more tired. But I'm also surrounded by good people, faced with interesting challenges, and supported by a community both physical and virtual who are ready to march with me into the battles of 2017.
In the past, on this last day leading into First Night I have made a wish for us all, that the very best of this year past be the worst that we face in the new. This year, I leave you with a different wish: that in 2017 we find that we are better than we feared, stronger than we'd hoped, and more compassionate than we'd ever dreamed.
*raises glass* To our health and our well-being, physical, mental, emotional and financial, from this house to yours.
And now I am off to see out the old with new friends, and tomorrow I will have old(er) friends to my home to see in the new. It seems apt...
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Date: 2017-01-01 05:44 pm (UTC)And I am also hoping that 2017 is a much better year, though at this point the prospects are grim. Time to armor up, though, and once more descend into the fray.
Or, as my favorite Zombie Tools tee featuring Zombie Che reads...fuck the revolution, bring on the apocalypse! One does not really want to evoke that mood in me--last time it happened, a manipulative, vicious boss went down in flames. Took a year to make it happen, but...one can hope.
Zombie Tools does not have Zombie Che tee any more, but Zombie Che bumpersticker and Zombie Che hoodie are a thing...http://www.zombietools.net/products/merchandise/