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blog in review – another year

by Jen at 6:41 pm on 30.12.2008Comments Off
filed under: mundane mayhem

it’s been nearly another full rotation of the earth around the sun – that cycle that we mark off in marching days, in pages turned.  in my earlier birthday post, i mentioned that this year i’ve had a much more heightened awareness of the speeding up of time – an acute sense of the fleeting nature of seasons which has become honed.  it’s an old truism that time passes more quickly as you get older – i’m not sure why this year in particular that has come into sharp focus, but it has.

this year has gone by so quickly, i feel as though i missed some parts – like when you’re watching a movie and look up to realise that the plot has moved on without your noticing, or try to speed read and skip out the finer details.  i cast my mind back over the 2008 and wonder just what happened – i’m left with only vague impressions of moments and events.  and how do you encapsulate that in totality?  it’s impossible, yet we still try, at the end of every year, to do so.

so here’s the speed reader’s version of my past year.

my best moments of 2008:

on the pulse of this fine day

racing and pacing and plotting the course

like a lick of ice cream

finally

my worst moments of 2008:

the dream pops

my first (and hopefully last) trip to a&e

unnerved

two words: root canal

my personal best posts of 2008 (for reasons known only to me):

i did before and had my share, it didn’t lead nowhere

so many places you’d prefer to be

a movie script ending, and the patrons are leaving, leaving

i know you have a lot of strength left

the sun is arisin’, most definitely

walking on water

my favourite ouch

and keeping it inside is worse still

send us signals, in the glow of night windows

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