The road begins with new experiences, routines, and challenges. I’ve made vows to read (actual print) every day. I’m working towards the re-exploration of my bookcases and beyond just reorganizing, I intend to revisit many of the novels and short story collections as well as spend a good chunk of time reading the couple dozen books I never did read. Meanwhile I have adopted this theory of exploration. I believe that we live to learn and explore. We are all dying in the physical sense but it is the spirit and the mind that enable us to endure. I intend to endure and to do so by learning and trying new things at every opportunity, and by breaking from the old routines to discover new ones.
Today I went to the Mighty Mighty Bosstones concert. It is the first time I’ve seen them and my first Ska since the Dropkick Murphy’s wandered through Ames, IA back in the college days. The concert was loud and driven and dressed in meaning and metaphor. The band was smaller than usual but their sound filled the space. It was my first ska with my partner and my first time taking any of my kids to a show. I intended to blog out a review, but that isn’t really want I want to do with this time and space. I want to reflect on having had the opportunity and having seized that opportunity when I might not have done so a year ago.
This road is about growth and change, and I am already making good on the promises of yesterday while healing the wounds of yesteryear. No big proclamations here. It is just another day on the long road and preparing for every tomorrow.
Some Thoughts:
- It is not lost on me how the days add up. It stands to reason that on Day 1 of the return to the regularly scheduled numbering system (in a year). I will be in a new home with my partner and we will have completed the absolute merger of lives.