The Year That Was

I don't usually sweat the New Year or starting fresh, but this year I did take a little inventory and did find things a little wanting and did make a little list. Things to remember. Ways to live. Aspirations of a higher order.

1) To wait and see. Patience served me well in 2015.

2) To live honestly. It's a character thing.

3) To be there and be cool for my friends and my family. Relationships are complex, but what they require is pretty simple.

4) To pay attention to the world around me. The little things are the big things, etc.

5) To get good at getting old(er). I think this has to do with cultivating an ongoing appreciation of me, such as I am.

Aaanyway, here's a wee tour through my 2015. Salut!

Spring: Tiki-bar karaoke. Eugene for Derek's birthday. Skating in shirt sleeves under the flowered, drooping trees.

Summer: New York City skate gangs. Go Skateboarding Day hill bombs. A boozy rabbit hole of summer involving swimming spots and front stoops.

Fall: Road tripping to the American Southwest in order to bathe in the sage-brush breeze. Halloween hijinks. Piles of crunchy leaves and all the trees caught on fire.

Winter: Powder days. Arctic nights. Copious celebrations indoors—where everyone gets along because it's too cold not to.