Field Trip!

A Day at the Aquarium.

I decided to try out my new Nikon D90 at my local Aquarium.

I'm very fortunate to have such a lovely place, literally, 10 minutes walking distance from my house. If you're ever in Manteo, NC stop by the Roanoke Island Aquarium.

Here are the delights of my trip.

Intent_Aim_Resolve_Decision...Resolution

Several years ago I spent the New Years Eve with a friend who asked me to sum up the year in a single word.

I am a thinker, ever analyzing and mulling things over, but this one-word-for-a-whole-year forced me to think of the big picture and scrutinize events in conjunction with others of that year. I had never done that, not consciously anyway.

So years later, I continue to summarize the year in a word, and I also pick out a word to be the focus for the new coming year. A tradition of sorts; if nothing else, it beats making a list of resolutions.

2010 was a year of “Change”
I experienced a lot of unexpected twists and turns; some amazing, some wretched. I tend to dwell on the gloomy ones and try to figure out what made them so, or what I could have done different. But assigning this year the word change, it lets me sit back and breath a sigh of relief. The things that happened were just that, part of an overall change. A shift in my life that is…was necessary for the next stage of my life. A morphing of forms and lives into something new…even if unexpected…to nourish and feed and provide the tools necessary for the next phase…"Growth"

While I know that time is a fluid thing, just because the page of the calendar was flipped and now says 2011 doesn’t mean that my life is going to switch just as quickly. Nevertheless, I feel that when I reflect on 2011 I will come to find much growth. And so my focus is not on the past, but on the ever change daily present…and nourishing the growth. Maybe even exploiting it a bit. Taking myself as a priority and allowing my creativity, my knowledge, my skills, to flourish and thrive

I recently thought about seedlings…though I am no green thumb. I thought about how some seeds sprout and grow very quickly after be

ing planted in the soil; like beans. Others take a while to break through the soil’s surface; like oak. I thought about how my future, my creative future, that I’ve been anxiously awaiting to partake in might just be that oak. It may take a long time to develop and peek through but I’d much rather have an enduring long healthy career than a quick blooming seasonal one.