it was a year of photos by phone camera due to travel and more travel with one project running into the next. while the world continued to spin in an upside down state of absolute madness, i’ve maintained a healthy distance - one that’s actually led to bridging gaps with others of different views.
the first half the year i fell into mind wanderings cast under a spell of candy floss daydreams and lyrical words strung together like songs in the wind. but reality showed up mid summer eerily soon after a mid-year post that became rather prophetic. life became a murky ebb and flow of rip tides that remains a blur of tracking through quicksand.
i’ve moved through it all with what’s become a ritual of movement and breath at the beginning and ending of each day and smacked into a mountain of inquiries and philosophical meanderings that’s left me in a bit of a stupor - much like a bird is stunned after smacking into a window.
it’s a feeling of hopping onto a ride i’ve not been on before, one that may stop momentarily, but one there’s no getting off of - not so much grim but a fact. it’s moved at a pace that’s shined a light on the quickening of time and how it does move at an untenable pace. the stoics write the enemy is the fallacy of tomorrow … vs doing today. wisdom to hang one’s hat on.
as we turn the page of one year to the other, perhaps it’s wise to look to the span of just this day ahead - and those that will quickly follow - with an eye to that which quickens the heart, stimulates the mind, and stirs the flame inside.
