2014. It was a mixed bag, really. Both Nerissa and I have our health, we love our life in our home of Bella Coola, we both love our jobs, we have friends, family and community loving us. We feel blessed in that respect. Professionally, it has been up and down. Juggling with the creative side of things with Ernest, working on The Hobby Shop Dungeon and the modules and so on, as well as everything else, its been a trying and learning experience. There have been setbacks, and we could not get our first module out before the end of the year, but we are both eager to make things happen during the next, and they will, for work has been continually added onto the whole edifice, thereby getting it all that much closer to completion. Im so very proud of the work we have accomplished so far. I can hardly wait to reveal it to the world. Ive been sitting on our completed maps and have been itching to show them to you one by one. Ive been able to resist that urge for the time being. I want to keep the surprise intact! I hope you will like the whole when you finally get to see it. It is truly unique, a labor of love. It will be one of a kind: There will be nothing else quite like it. Those unique, special creations come with a price, however, and that price is time and effort: an attention to detail, a careful shaping of the object through different phases into its final, desired substance and format, the creation of the art, the editing, and layout, and so on, so forth. I talked about setbacks earlier. Most trying during the last few months were the many losses in human life which occurred in Bella Coola. Friends, families of friends have been affected. Some people we knew personally, others less or not at all. It has all been very taxing for the community, and my heart goes out to all the families affected. Many have left this world this year, and they were of all genders, ages and conditions. Along with the recent tragedy of Anahim Lake, I would be lying to say it has not cast a cloud on our morale as of late, but I feel confident we will work our way through it. I feel we have a stake in the community that is our home. There have been happy times too, and an every day routine which I find both fitting and satisfying to my needs, all things considered. Life is so full of potential right now. There are so many things either beginning or unfolding, so many things that seem to wait in the wings, ready to come out and exist and just ... happen, you know. Its like the quiet before the storm, with all the anticipation that implies. I barely scratch the surface. I guess thats what 2014 was for me. It was a threshold. A feeling of transition from one thing to the next without much of a sense of closure, but with the promise that this is all working towards an end game that is in sight. It is both exhilarating and terrifying at the same time. Im eager to go on and to make it all happen. Alright. Now to get into the evening, enjoy New Years Eve and all that. To 2015. A new year full of promise. Happy New Year to all.
Posted on: Thu, 01 Jan 2015 02:44:00 +0000
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