Sunday, December 7, 2008

end of a revolution

Dear Readers,

There aren't a lot of you...perhaps only two or three. But you've been following my blog faithfully for a couple of years now - the good, the bad, and the ugly - and i hope you've enjoyed this journey as much as i at times did not.

Change is in the air. Whether for better or worse, only time will tell. We could sit over coffee or tea or beer and discuss what's going to happen regarding the current economic crisis, our newly elected president, or next season's Red Sox lineup...but it would serve no greater purpose than to fill the silence while we drink. Because what's going on in the world today doesn't matter. What's going on inside of us does matter. Our lives depend on it.

This is the end of a revolution. My revolution. It is the end of this blog as you know it. It ran its course, and now it is done. It is tired. It is ready for change.

Olde Brown Dog is that change. I'm not prepared to tell you what's in store, because i honestly don't know. But truth will be involved.

Guts.

Discomfort, on my end. Maybe even on yours.

"Be men, or be more than men. Be steady to your purposes and firm as a rock. This ice is not made of such stuff as your hearts may be; it is mutable and cannot withstand you if you say that it shall not." - Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

It is silly to be intimidated by change. It is silly to allow that which is out of our control, control us. Now is the time to remain steadfast; to find strength that will withstand uncertainty. We must embrace our lives as our lives, and nothing less.

I have lived an entire lifetime, and now i'm ready for my next. I don't know where i'm going, only where i've been, and that scares me. But i'm learning. Learning about what love is, what happiness is, what contentedness is.

It's an old brown dog.

Audrey