I’ve often wished to be a hermit. Have you ever read My Side of the Mountain? It’s about a boy, tired of living in a cramped apartment with too many siblings, who runs away to upstate New York to live on the family land his father has told him stories of. He makes a home inside a huge tree. He raises a hawk and teaches it to hunt. Man, just hook up wifi in that tree and I’m there.
Ahh, the turning of the year. Tis the season for dissecting the year past, and planning the year ahead. Cynicism, guilt, hope, and optimism make an unlikely mix at this time of year. Everyone is looking back, or looking ahead, or both. Kit Campbell can’t believe 2013 is gone. Erin Zarro has some big dreams for 2014. Siri Paulson is on vacation. Me? Well, I’m living up to Kit’s proclamation that creative types get a little wild in the resolution department. I’m resonating with Erin’s rejection of fear in the new year. Mentally I’m vacationing with Siri. Ahem.