The cycle continues |
For Americans, this is the day of the New Year, an occasion to reflect and resolve, to mark the cycle's turn. In places where people did not dump the moon for a calendar solely solar, the New Year comes later. For me, the Winter Solstice is when one year clicks over to the next, and this Gregorian conceit that begins the new year a week and a half later means little.
But, it does come with a day off work, and therefore some time to write. Maybe also to reflect backward resolve forward.
The grimacing corpse of 2013 |
This year's run transmogrifies into a monster and fights itself to death, but also creates a new round of growth and life. |
Ugh. All I really wanted to do today was post these photos of the 2013 chum salmon run on Kennedy Creek (photos date to a few weeks before the Solstice). Maybe I should have written nothing, instead of risking this maudlin run into a Message. Maybe I should just stop now and leave you with New Years Resolutions by Greg and Teddy Wayne (via McSweeney's):
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- Get into jazz
Happy New Year, whenever it begins.
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