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here we are, two days into a new year. i have to admit, we had a lot more snow from the get-go then i would've anticipated for the new year, but it's a welcome change to rain and wet.

i think this will be a good year. i'm curious about where this year will take me. the new places, spaces and experiences. i feel... cautiously optimistic. optimistic because good things are coming, but cautious because i want to hold to those good things loosely until they're more tangible.

it's exciting to think where we might be this time next year....
• brendan's graduating this spring, which will start him off into a new stage of life. he's done so well in school, getting straight A's on yet another report card :) i'm sure this last semester will fly by, but be equally good as the others.
• i MIGHT be going to berlin, and possibly sooner than later. my guess would be at the end of jan or early feb. then in april i should be going to arizona for a conference.
• b and i hope to take our much anticipated trip to greece+istanbul (we've been talking about this for the last 18 months already and keep needing to reschedule it).
• living room will be wrapping up this spring, at least in it's current form under my leadership, and i'm excited for new opportunities and ways of being plugged in at next.
• we'll probably spend a week trailer-camping near mallorytown in august.
• and in the late summer or early fall, we'll get a washing machine installed.

all fun activities and new beginnings aside... i want this to be a year of authenticity.
i wrote a whole paragraph explaining this, and found that it got far my complicated and involved a lot of backpeddling to make sense (which just made it less clear), so i've decided to just leave it at that - a year of authenticity :)

go melt back into night,
everything inside is made of stone.