Grain Test: Stepping-up for 2014

Hello and Good Morning,

Not sure how this will go, but I have made the decision to get into the blogging scene leading into the new year, hoping more than anything that it will help me straighten out my actions, thoughts and feelings into something which makes some sense. I've never run a blog before, and have little experience with blogs, so bear with me as I work through this little experiment. I doubt there will be much exposure, and am absolutely fine with that.

Anyhow, being the 27th of December, 2013, I am clearly caught in the yearly closure process, where we all spend a little time reflecting over the past and make plans for the upcoming year. Obviously, the connection with the pagan solstice celebration is unmistakable, and thus we follow the tide of nature with a death and rebirth of ourselves, adding yet another ring to our trunk of experience and looking forward with plans to do better in the upcoming growth cycle.

So, as the title might suggest, I will make strides to document reflections for the past year to build somewhat of a foundation to build upon over the next year. Whether I continue is still a question with the fates, but my intent is there, and as we all know, its just the intent that matters, right? Ha. In the past, I attempted to keep a journal of the events and happenings with limited success, so my thought was doing something online might just either make it easier to keep up with, or easier for me to quit following up with, so time will surely tell the story here.

It might also be a bad idea to make public current affairs in my life, however, I also have a tendency to keep everything so suppressed it does no one any good. I will struggle to follow through on this experiment, and hope to find an excellent compromise with my other duties allowing myself a chance to develop beyond the husk I currently am. Here's to new beginnings, better things, and a blog which I never would have imagined becoming part of my repertoire. Time to take Macie for a walk and focus on my pending assignments for this whole blog thingy.