The day after

Ok, so I was more than a bit hokey in my Threshold post from a couple of days ago, I'll admit it. I tend to get pretty nostalgic toward the end of the year and I was in a wordy mood. I've had a touch of OCD all my life, which is great for keeping all the books on tabletops at right angles, but it also makes me become quite superstitious around symbolic dates. I'm fairly skeptical in general, but I also have this side that really believes in the whole Buddhist-spiritual self-improvement thing and it comes on particularly strong in the week between Christmas and the New Year. In the last few days I've written what I'd like to let go of and what I hope for in 2009 on little squares of paper that I burned; at midnight I repeated the names of my family members in order to keep them safe; and I even considered going for the full hippie burning-of-sage to rid my house of any bad juju accumulated over the year, but never got around to it...

One thing I will say: 2008 brought the formation of this blog, which has been a wonderful way to tap into my love of writing and to show new photographs with more freedom than my website allows. I think it's changed the way I relate to my work in ways I couldn't have anticipated, and it's given me the opportunity to make some wonderful connections with other artists, facilitating a dialog that I don't think would have been possible otherwise. I'm very grateful to have this format to work in, and am interested to see what the medium will do for photography in general as time passes. All in all, I woke up this morning with the conviction that 2009 is going to be a great year, while honoring all that I experienced and learned in 2008. And now I'll sign off, before I get over the top again.