Possibilities in 2016

Happy New Year Everyone!  A couple of weeks of silence on the blog.  Whew, the holidays have been full to the brim, and bringing 2015 to a close for Badass Backpacks felt very big.  Nancy and I have a short-running tradition of closing out the year with a fire in our backyard fire pit, where we share conversation about the past year – and then we write down things to say good-bye to… then we burn them in the fire.  We also talk about things to come in the year ahead – and then we write those things down… then we burn those in the fire too.  It’s just as simple and unstructured as it sounds and even though last night’s ceremony was cut short (by our waking children),  I love bringing in the New Year this way.

For about the last 6 months or so, my laptop has had this Hugh MacLeod (Gaping Void) artwork decal showing on the outside of the lid.  I love this artwork.  I’m looking at it now, and it makes me smile.  It feels very perfect as we get the new year started.

“If I were to wish for anything I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of what can be, for the eye, which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible.  Pleasure disappoints, possibility never.  And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating as possibility?”
–Søren Kierkegaard

Needless to say — there are updates galore that I feel a certain sense of urgency to get posted up on the blog.  🙂  I’ll make some time to get that done soon… but until then.  I will stay (happily) intoxicated by possibility.  Happy New Year Everyone!  2016 is off and running!