Resolutions

It's been about a year since I wrote anything new on this blog, and it was a strange, slightly ghostly feeling to sift through old posts, and even older ones, which had passed the test of previous weeding-out sessions, which I force myself to undergo (and inflict on most of what I own) periodically.

The last year has been, well, tumultuous.
A lot of things have changed, a lot of ideas I held dear have been destroyed, but then again, equally many have been affirmed.
New friends have been made, love lost and found, many times. A new home has been reconciled to, a new field of study, new tastes.
Some old demons are dead now, some new ones have found shape.

Things have become addictive, been renounced, and come back again.

What are resolutions for? To promise to do something? Not really. Perhaps, rather, to take stock, and that from a comfortable point of view, when a year is over and life is slightly slower than usual.

To come back to old writing is in one sense a homecoming, and in another like making an acquaintance.

Either way, it's good to be back.