....old year/new year

....lynne 'n' me on the couch on new years eve ....chris and lynne's babies will be here soon! fab! .....anyway enough about the flippin' babies ;-)

harmonious, helpful, and holistic..... as s tradition i reflect first upon my mantra for 2011 ....as i look at last years words they have an undefinable quality about them and i struggle to think how i have, if indeed i have achieved them! ....well first of all - helpful. achieved, i feel, if we interpret this as supportive, understanding, available.... but you'd probably need to ask family and friends to find out if my view of my helpfulness is in fact correct.

as for harmonious.... i'm going to take a musical theme first and say that i think that 2011 was the year when two wiseguys found their groove. the hard work of previous years resulted in the harmonious blending of karl's percussion and my words and melodies. it's been a busy and exciting year on this front especially our support slot with the wonderstuff and our first tentative steps into promoting the circadian rhythms acoustic night. and the year ended with me playing guitar and singing harmonies for sharon at ruth's wedding ...so ...that works.

holistic says to be taking a whole and balanced view of who you are and where you are at.... the symbol that hangs around my neck on a chain symbolises the intertwining of mind, spirit and body. surely balance in these areas would make for a holisticness (clearly not a word!). my mind as ever is stimulated by what i read. my fall from christianity into atheism has been well documented and discussed and my further reading regarding evolution and the origins of the universe reinforce this position for me. there is little need for myth when science has (or is working towards) the answers. in terms of my body, my physical well being, it was a good year. i enter 2012 lighter than i entered 2011 - this is something that has not happened for a good while! i feel my fitness is returning to levels i had some years ago after some time where my mojo has been considerably lacking. as for my spirit.... a year of embracing the outdoors - winter walks, golf, camping (or folding campering to be precise), cycling, running, latitude festival, not to mention basking in the sun of florida while in the theme parks, has left my spirits very high, not to mention being settled within myself. ....as for balance, well, i'm still working on that. i say yes to too many things but feel i'm making positive

...all good ....and checking on the missions from last year i feel quite satisfied. music has been at the forefront as ever but he side project ideas suffered as a consequence of how busy two wiseguys were.... and that was a good thing ...side projects are for doing when time allows. the physical side of things is dealt with above and has been a good year and the mantra of "outdoors outdoors outdoors" was more than achieved! happy days......

that's it for 2011... i will contemplate 2012 and write more soon