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Category: (B)logarhythm
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Published on Wednesday, 04 September 2013 19:02
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Written by Josh Nelson
5:42.
Tuesday.
Third of September,
Two thousand and thirteen.
The day before Rosh Hashana.
Window seat at Café Martin, Brooklyn, NY
Here, in the first quiet moment I’ve given to self-reflection in some time, I am moved to share thoughts on the year to come.
I’ve watched this year pass through the narrow view of a telescope, lens dirty from dust and smoke, emotionally detached but somehow present thanks to the distance such a device affords. I’ve seen quite a bit this year. Death, joy, fear, rapture, connection, disappointment, pride, love... it’s a long list.
Here are, as distilled from a recently retired Moleskine and in no particular order, this year’s life lessons:
- If you lose God, just find a kid.
- Music is in the making.
- We are all, in one way or another, praying to ourselves.
- God is; God is: God is, God is.
- There is always hope.
- Any moment can be the moment when something momentous occurs.
- If you swear that you will never love again…
- Money kills. How ironic then that in the end, we could not (would not) (should not) care about it less.
- It’s time to be an artist, which essentially means that it’s time to be.
- Believe in the power of positive change.
- It only takes one. Truth.
- Family is kinetic, not genetic.
- Bloodlines don’t necessarily lead to love lines. (Fortunately, love lines are not bloodline-dependent.)
- There is no reason an omelet should contain only one kind of cheese.
Wishing all of us, each and every one, a beautiful and blessed year to come.
Shana Tovah,
josh
