reflection

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A year ago I wrote: "I didn't write a 2004-in-review post; a year is not my preferred unit of nostalgia." This makes even more sense today. The end of 2005 left me with a whole lot of unresolved. Still, here are some things I did last year, in some kind of emotional order:

• Started a new band, its break-up built-in.
• Left two other bands.
• Played the accordion.
• Ran a concert series.
• Supported other people's music.
• Lost interest in my own music.
• Met an unparalleled friend.
• Found myself unexpectedly in love.
• Opened up to the world, just a little bit more.
• Gave away most of what I owned.
• Moved out of my seven-year home.
• Didn't, yet, move into a new one.

A year ago I continued: "And I don't do resolutions; it's like making an appointment for future guilt." Still true. So, not a resolution, but a realization this morning: I should start keeping an actual journal. A lot has happened that I never wrote down, and would like to remember.