Dawn is breaking outside my study window. The light is still grey; it will be time to take Chewbacca on his walk pretty soon and feel the first rays of the sun on my face. It’s January 2nd, but with January 1st being a holiday, this day truly feels like the dawning of the new year. As I look forward to what lies ahead, so do I look back to what has been, and what a year it has been!
It’s been a year of renewing and deepening friendships and bonds: Gardo, Bryan, Brian, Cyp, Alan, I look forward to learning and laughing with you in RL and in SL more this year. It’s been a year of crossings as friends lost parents and pets; I’ve grieved and mourned with them. It’s been a year of finding community and sisterhood with RCGSA as I balance the spiritual with the material. All in all, it’s been a year of blessings.
For 2007, action beckons. As Gardo says, it’s time to heed my callings as well, and find once more, their true patterns. Where I go from here, I know not for sure, except that the path I tread will stay connected to education and academia in some fashion. A PhD beckons on a still-distant horizon, but I can feel the call to action churning in my bones. Status quo no longer works, and I suspect, the Universe will find a way to push me out of my comfortable little rut as well.
So goodybye 2006, and hello 2007!
