A week in Colombia

la fiesta de reyes magos 

Since the year began I've been trying to settle on a list, a way of setting targets for a year well spent.  The thing is, I've utterly ignored myself and tried to come up with things to do, not how I want to be.  It's difficult, being this wise and this stupid all in the same package.

The 'to do' list is simply one way of collecting evidence, part of a plan not an aim within itself.  Still valid, but not standalone.  A full photo album and large CV does not a full life make, any more than a house full of stuff.  It all has to be an extension of who I am not an attempt to be someone I wish I was.

 Thus my list goes something like this;

1.  Embrace my introvert self, rather than apologise for it. Have weekly planned and deliberate time alone, in the outside (e.g. long walks with Mabel)

2.  Don't wait for the weather to be right to wear what I want to wear (this is a metaphor, and literal)

3.  Develop my opinions on things I care about, so that I can be a voice regardless of whether it is heard.

4.  Be more than my work, loosen the job title from my identity; it's just one way to express what I care about.

5.  Sing, dance and be ridiculous.  It's far too late to worry now.