Reflections on 2020: Year of the Alchemical Orca
To document events of the year and draw the rough outlines of its themes has come to be a powerful force of habit. But as I get older and accumulate […]
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Reflections on 2019: Year of the Pruning Sword
Due to travelling, I have not had the time to make this annual reflection before the close of the year. No matter. It remains fitting to take a few moments […]
Reflections on 2018: Year of the Blue Phoenix
This is the last day of the year 2018, a year of immense activity and numerous advancements in my life. I have chosen to label this as the year of […]
Reflections on 2017: Year of the Eclipsed Decade
It is now the 31st of December in the year 2017 and as tradition would have it, the time for reflection. This particular one bears a special significance as it […]
Reflections on 2016: Year of Sisyphean Bloom
The year of two thousand and sixteen will be remembered by many as a regrettable year of many tragedies and one of which they will have been collectively happy to […]
Reflections on 2015: Year of Callousing Skin
I’m going to try and keep this short this year. I have always found great benefit in this habit of eight years now, and looking back on all the previous […]
Reflections on 2014: Year of Verdant Upshoots
As I look back upon the years that fashioned me, I find a few consistent strands ever present and ever thickening. Today marks the one out of 365 days during […]
Reflections on 2013: Year of Burning Embers
Burning Embers: This year was a bed of burning coals we witnessed the visions of which induced by traversing trials and challenging moments and enduring much in the way of […]
Reflections on 2012
At this sealing of another of Earth’s revolutions around Sun, let us recount what has been learned and internalized, and what remains to be done as the journey carries us […]
Reflections on 2011
It is the 31st of December, according to human convention signifying the final day of the year 2011 and offering a fitting moment for reflection on all that has taken […]
Reflections on 2010
Well well well, another year has come to its end and so it is again time to take a step back and look at my life from a distance in […]
Reflections on 2009
So it’s that time of year again and, as convention would have it, a convenient moment for reflection on the events of the previous year in the hopes of understanding […]
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So the year is coming to a close and it really seems like it was just yesterday that I was in exactly the same situation welcoming the year 2008 in […]