And Time Floats By Like An Anchorless Ship

2011. Finally! A lot has happened, in some instances a lot has changed in the past year and in others not much has changed at all.

Obama said change is good. I believe him. But being all excited about change is not going to physically make anything happen. (Which is good, because we are rarely REALLY excited about anything.) Nike says 'Just Do It'. I prefer that to all sorts of motivational crap that is supposed to psyche you up. Anyways. What is supposed to happen you ask? Hmmm, probably whatever you can imagine or whatever you want to happen. And what might that be? Well, that's more or less what were were trying to figure out on our tour of the universe this December holiday. It started in Belgium. In Amsterdam. In Cape Town. In Joburg. In Ethiopia. In the fitting rooms of Stuttafords in Sandton City. You name it, we were there.

And then we stumbled across it. The secret of life. If I tell you the whole story i'd have to kill you, so in a nutshell - here is the secret to all life's problems: Life happens. Let it go. Go with it. And it will come back to you. That's about it. Nothing new really. It would have been on a fortune cookie if it wasn't that long... or maybe it could have just replaced the lotto numbers... who knows. I guess it's more a process of amplifying what you have experienced before, so that you start seeing things more for what they are. To see them as individual particles. To find their essence. And in turn resonate your own essence to be balanced with that of your environment.

Then maybe all the disappointments will become teachers and once we can laugh at our mistakes, we will be free to focus on our dreams. There is the saying 'free your mind and live, free your heart and love'. Think about this and listen to some Black Keyes. Especially if it's close to the weekend. Then let it all go.

On the first day of 2011 I witnessed the most beautiful ocean sunset and cloud spectacular I have ever seen. It was strange how amazed and content and sad that could make me all at once. A perfectly imperfect moment. All that was missing was love. It could have, would have, should have been there, but it wasn't. Rather it was a beautiful mistake. A visible illusion. Right where it starts it ends. Watching something so beautiful disappear is like losing a friend. It was love like a sunset. (thank you Phoenix for putting that into words). When the sun rises, we will start again. Hello Mr. Sun, I missed you. If I ever leave again, I will take you with me. Anyways, here we go again... Cheers Mr Obama, cheers people of Nike and also Arcade Fire, here's to change and a Happy new year.