Tuesday, January 1, 2013

Hello 2013: Turn, turn...

It's hard to escape reviewing and revising and resolving amid the New Year, but rather than making big resolutions (well, of course I want to be better at the things I do and a better person overall), I've been taking stock. To whit isn't this a lovely photo of Mono Lake? I spent New Year's Eve in Berkeley eating great food (curly kale, agnolotti, at Revival) and listening to great music (Chuck Prophet & Tender Mercies @ Starry Plough) rather than the Eastern Sierra. However, due to vagaries in phone apps, phone upgrades and phone near-drowning-experiences, some photos I took in August miraculously reappeared in my files. For months, I had no record of a string of shots I took when we drove across much of the Western states, including a stop at Mono Lake, one of my favorite places in the world. This saddened me. As you can see, it was a lovely day of mountain and lake-side vistas and I just don't get to that area much anymore. And of course, Mono Lake is a prime example of something precious and vital being nearly destroyed due to ignorance. [Read about Mono Lake history and conservation efforts here] But, voila, what was seeming lost reappeared. The same thing happened with some rings that went missing three years ago and resurfaced amid moving. How often something we want is ours already, provided we turn to see it. Hello 2013, pleased to meet you...