Not driving anywhere tonight.

It’s been two years since the ever-wonderful Jean MacDonald (@jean) invited me to chat with her on the Micro Monday Podcast, Episode 95. It was my first time ever being on a podcast but Jean made me immediately comfortable and I enjoyed the experience a lot.

Since that episode, I’ve undergone some major life changes and it has become a personal time capsule of a slice of my life I would not have otherwise documented. Forcing myself to re-listen, I can find all sorts of knit-picks to criticize myself for but overall, I still stand by much of what I said:

• Finding ways to embrace your local climate is key to enjoying where you live.
• Participating in creative pushes, like Micro.blog’s monthly photo challenge, are great opportunities to connect with other people and better understand your own creativity.
• Personal blogs are far more interesting to follow than hashtag social media hustles.

Though I liked summer light on you
If we ride a winter-long wind
Well, time’s not what I belong to
And I’m not the season I’m in

• Robin Noel Pecknold

As much as I enjoy journaling on paper, switching to Day One seems to have finally cracked my problem with abandoning the practice. For now, my phone is my new notebook.

Overnight, all was coated in crystal. Everything now, is still and locked in place. But soon, the sun will gleam and the grass will rise from their bow.