Happy new year!
(this site is so ugly, that will change this month)
Happy New Year!
I meant to send Christmas cards this year, since I was going chintzy on the gifts for budgetary reasons. My normal thing is to send cards and include a newsletter of sorts, which has always been well received.
But the more I tried to write the newsletter, the more I sounded like a Buddhisty Zen airhead. It is hard to capture how empowering it is to retool your life to come from a place of inspiration instead of motivation, and the nuances that encapsulates.
So, I bailed on it. I figured it was better to come across as too poor or busy to send a card than to send one that didn’t paint a detailed-enough portrait of my life.
Plus, a lot of the metrics people use to catch up with me (books, body, boy, etc.) are all in a very healthy place, and I feel like all three are going to pop in 2007, but to say they’ve made no progress (as far as hitting measurable goals) or delivering heavily-caveated progress seemed, again, to be broad-stroking things too swiftly.
A lot of the things I hear over the holidays are interesting in that they are positive, but make you think deeper about them. “You seem much happier” is nice to hear, but does raise flags of my vibe before.
I’m also the token vegan/rice queen back in Pennsylvania, but that’s because here almost no one is the former, and it would be dating suicide to attempt the latter. But since both are a bit of a novelty here, it is OK, unlike in SF where I find many references to veganism to be childish (which I will address this year; some people may be staying home more often if they don’t adapt).
When I return to SF, my focus will be on writing the novel and building Oasis into a daily-updated site. I’ve always been such a planner, it is interesting not knowing exactly what will be happening on Oasis, but it seems like it needs to be something that grows and develops organically rather than me just running with it without community input. Will probably start an Oasis podcast in February or so, which will be a new avenue for me.
So, nothing in the way of resolutions, since I’ve already got my trajectory pretty fixed already. Besides, resolutions are just motivation…
Happy New Year!
