In light of my Mother's upcoming birthday here's a little watercolour of her favourite critter, the Monarch Butterfly. Happy Birthday Mom!
During this evening's LOTR-esque public transit journey from Victoria to Vancouver I savoured a few spare moments (“gift time” I call it) to reflect on the past year.
Let me get all scientific-like and suggest that if you take an individual day as a representative sample of the year, today has been solid evidence that 2009 was outstanding with quite a few personal milestones achieved following a serious increase in my creative output.
This isn't meant to be some big self-congratulatory backpat-athon but, hey, sometimes you have to look back to get perspective and appreciate the good times, right? You could look back on your own 2009 and pick out recurring themes and find patterns that play out day-by-day as they unfold across an entire year. Maybe there's things you can be stoked about, maybe there's even things you want to change?
Some notable themes that defined 2009 for me:
- drawing and painting
- tattooing
- machine tuning
- travel
- friends and family
Interestingly, these annual themes are almost perfectly reflected within the microcosm of today's events: I did a walk-in tattoo, built a primitive tattoo machine, cleaned some tubes, fetched coffee, food, and supplies for the shop, and the cherry on top… took a spontaneous trip to Vancouver to surprise my sweetheart with Champagne to usher in a New Year. May even get some drawing in on the bus over. That's pretty much a one-to-one thematic correspondence from day-to-year, Howzabouthat?
I have a good feeling about 2010. This will be the best one yet.
Twenty and Ten
In light of my Mother's upcoming birthday here's a little watercolour of her favourite critter, the Monarch Butterfly. Happy Birthday Mom!
During this evening's LOTR-esque public transit journey from Victoria to Vancouver I savoured a few spare moments (“gift time” I call it) to reflect on the past year.
Let me get all scientific-like and suggest that if you take an individual day as a representative sample of the year, today has been solid evidence that 2009 was outstanding with quite a few personal milestones achieved following a serious increase in my creative output.
This isn't meant to be some big self-congratulatory backpat-athon but, hey, sometimes you have to look back to get perspective and appreciate the good times, right? You could look back on your own 2009 and pick out recurring themes and find patterns that play out day-by-day as they unfold across an entire year. Maybe there's things you can be stoked about, maybe there's even things you want to change?
Some notable themes that defined 2009 for me:
Interestingly, these annual themes are almost perfectly reflected within the microcosm of today's events: I did a walk-in tattoo, built a primitive tattoo machine, cleaned some tubes, fetched coffee, food, and supplies for the shop, and the cherry on top… took a spontaneous trip to Vancouver to surprise my sweetheart with Champagne to usher in a New Year. May even get some drawing in on the bus over. That's pretty much a one-to-one thematic correspondence from day-to-year, Howzabouthat?
I have a good feeling about 2010. This will be the best one yet.