Magically I have made it to 30 years old without incident.  My twin brother ended up coming down to San Francisco for a couple of days to catchup, escape Portland and soak up some sun.  My older brother has put together a few dinners and we have been going out on the city a bit.  Last I blogged, I was still working at Pollection a bit.  As of Feb 3rd I finished that up and have spent the last week and a half training for climbing, changing the pace of my life and catching up on sleep.

Last Friday I ended up entering into a climbing competition and was happy with my performance.  It is incredible what three good weeks of training can do along with a little preparation and motivation.  It is going to be great to get back outside again regularly when I get back from Washington.

Note: This was written just before I went back for a 3 week contract at Pollection.

Here it is, finally 2008 and I am without employment, traveling around in my van and generally getting along on the path that I have been working toward for a good couple of years now. It has been sad leaving Seattle, Pollection and the life that I had for what I am doing now, but so far it has been rewarding and refreshing in many ways.

The transition from working most all of the time when I was awake to having almost endless free time has been an interesting transition. The first couple of days mostly consisted of trying to get on a semi-sane sleep schedule, but once that was done I was able to start paying a lot more attention to the world around me. For the preceding two months I was so focused on work and the things that I “had” to get done that I stopped paying as much attention to people, the weather, my personal mental state and a variety of other important things in my life. I have found it critical to my personal satisfaction to stay connected to the little and big things which are going on around me. Over the years I have found that I readily dive into whatever commitments I create for myself and don’t spend nearly enough time reflecting, paying attention to where I am taking my life and what specific things I want to foster in a new way.

Sorry for the lack of updates lately… Life has been crazy busy, but I thought I would put up this lovely photo of a cup of coffee…

mmmm.