Sunday January 1st, 2017

The exercise:

Write about something that has been: revitalized.

Welcome to 2017! Ideas are beginning to swirl for this year's yearlong prompt. Haven't settled on anything yet, but I hope to do so and introduce the idea by the end of the week.

We got a serious dumping of snow overnight. When we went up to Kat's parents for dinner this evening, her dad asked if we'd been out all day because he hadn't seen the car parked by our house.

I told him no, it's just buried in snow.

I suspect that I am not going to enjoy hauling firewood through the orchard tomorrow morning.

Mine:

New years and new beginnings. They seem to go hand in hand, don't they?

Everyone I know gets all obsessed with their resolutions and commitments to lifestyle changes. Quit smoking. Quit drinking. Start exercising. Get a life.

I've never really understood it. Not until this year, anyway. I guess I've never had a reason to get caught up in all that hoopla. My life was good. My health was good. My career was on the right track. Keep doing what I'm doing didn't seem like a very worthwhile resolution, you know?

This year is different though. My life needs some changes. Drastic changes. That's why I'm cutting ties with the people who have, without me even realizing it, been weighing me down. I'm ready for a fresh start. To set out on my own. Make my own schedule, do as I choose for a while. My days and nights will be my own for the first time in... man, I don't even remember.

See what I mean? This is long overdue.

So goodbye house. See ya job. Later neighbours. Take it easy, hometown. Peace out wife and kids.

I'm running away from home.