Noveau.

To my handful of readers out there, I'd like to go ahead and establish a new blogging rule of thumb (for myself anyway): "special day" posts (eg: birthday, Christmas, Saturdays, etc.) are given a 7-day grace period before officially becoming irrelevant.

On that note, I'll share a quick word about New Year's: First, the house party last Friday was an epic success. If I say anything more than that, it'll take away all the mystique and exclusivity, thereby rendering the experience nearly vulgar. But yeah, it was better than I could have expected.

Also, visualization boards. This weekend I'll be making one for 2011. The idea is that we attract into our life whatever we give attention to; we literally manifest our thoughts, dreams, and energy. I was looking for images and words that I want to bring myself in the coming year when I found this bit from Walt Whitman (I will always love him, forget that he's almost certainly gay and definitely dead) and wanted to share it:

"this is what you shall do: love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning god, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men, go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re-examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul, and your very flesh shall be a great poem."

I was fortunate to welcome great love and new friends into my life last year...here's looking forward to a year of new laughs and adventures with you all :)