The Year 2008 in review

First, as always, I apologize for taking my sweet old time in posting - I mean I could not believe it my last post was the 17th of November - what was I thinking!! I am fine and have just been - lazy at posting. :-) Please be kind and forgive...

Second, I am back in Buenos Aires. Business as usual, it is slow very slow. You want to know how slow? Ok. Let me tell you how slow business is - have you ever watched paint dry - yeah, that slow.

2008 in review, every new year I always think of just one or two words to describe the past year. It keeps me focused on what I need to do THIS year 2009. I came to the word - revival.

I thought 2008 was kind to me and the ones I love. I have connected with people I once thought I had lost and most of all have established a more matured level of "connection". It is great.

I have found a new source of inner strength in hearing people put me down, because honestly even those that "love" you cannot bear to see or hear that YOU are actually better than them. Imagine that!?

I also have seen in me a growth that only someone at my age would dare have - the ability to take anything on. Graceful aging gives me vigor like never I have seen before. Wow!

I am still searching for that final place for me - I am here but am I really supposed to be here - that kind of thought. Remarkable to me is the fact that I can be so obnoxiously confident yet doubtful of my presence in this very place. I am still a "transient' here in Argentina. All I have is a thriving business and a good roof over my head - besides that if the Argentine government rounds up people who should be leaving, I would be tops of that list. Not really sure why I still feel that but it would take me a long while before considering Argentina any reflection of home. Being honest here you know.

USA and the small dusty place where I was born is HOME. Here I do not have a label, I am a wanderer here. Great for my adventureous spirit, I give you that.

2008 was great I loved it for everything and everyone that it brought to me. My experiences and the things I learned had only made me better.

And I have a nice Renault 9 gtl to show for a year ender, who wouldn't like that?

The Christmas tree posted above is the one we had for 2008. Silver was the motiff I chose. I took this picture the day after all the presents were given.
Christmas is really a time for giving and forgiveness.