A New Start

No resolutions yet, those come about mid-month. I liked SleepyElf's post, I think we'll have some overlap. We had a great Christmas, laid-back and warm, no drama, just nice visits, hugs and immersion with family. Each year I'm reminded of what a blessing it is to share a moment of time in this slipstream ride with those who have been with us on our journey, some since our inception. Some since theirs. While nothing stands still, these moments are precious. Many thanks to our gracious and loving hosts, to our wacky siblings and alien nieces and nephews. Then we ushered the new year in with old friends on a blue moon. Goodbye 2009 and nice to meet ya 2010.

Since jumping from the moving plane of employment in July, it seems like time up to now has been spent on a new island. The adjustment was easy, combing beaches, swinging in a hammock, piling up a few coconuts. At first I continued with the same projects and approaches I'd always used to manage activities outside of work, it was just an expansion of time allotments. What I used to have only part time to explore, I now had all day. But every new year, from about the 1st to sometime in the middle of the month, I've had a ritual of re-evaluating where things have went and where they're going. Taking stock and making adjustments. Fine-tuning. But this year feels significantly different. I'm feeling more pulled towards immersion, deeper into things than was possible with the small and interruptable time-slices between the immediate and back-burner commitments of evolving complex architectures at work. A different type of flow is opening up that I can't quite articulate yet, but it feels pretty exciting.