2018 Begins

As with every new year new resolutions are made, some stick, most don't. This isn't a resolution, this is preparation. 

Salty spotting

The New Year comes and with it, as cliche'd as it may be, is the feeling of a fresh start. While a few years ago I retired the activity of making New Years resolutions, mostly due to complete and consistent failure, I'm still filled with the feeling of freshness with the arrival of a new year. SO, here I am, hopeful that 2018 will be a year of huge positive shifts and changes that will open the door for growth. Part of the growth comes from doing things that I had put off for many years. This website being one of them.

I've wanted a place to showcase my work for a long time, but I never really had the motivators the desire to try to start something fresh that would take up a lot of time. I knew I needed to get it done, the fact is that working as a designer and for my freelance, I do need a place for potential clients to see what I can do for them. But perhaps the other equally important reason for doing this website is that for a long time I have wanted to document my thoughts and blog. Social media was not going to cut it, too saturated with rants, too quick, too public even. It was just too important to get this live promptly. Finally, thanks to my dear friend, Sean, it got done!  

And here it is in all its simplistic glory. I have a place to share my art/creativity with the world and (perhaps more importantly) I can just write. I can share my thoughts with the vast and endless word dump that is the internet. My thoughts are now put to screen and anyone can read if they would like (yikes!).

As I write, I keep circling back to one thought: "I'm not interesting."  I love my down-time, my family time, I sometimes enjoy a heart-pumping; sweat filled workout, I have an interesting job/career, I'm relatively healthy... I mean, that's all interesting right? NO. But really though, that's not what this is about. This is for me. This is for my sanity and personal growth. Then I thought, "how great would it be for my daughter, as she grows and perhaps when she's an adult, to be able to read what her daddy was thinking?" In years to come she could potentially understand me better, in a way I never could with my parents. So... I suppose I owe Sean more than I could pay back.

With all of that said, here goes 2018, a year of growth and most importantly, sharing.