The Longest Journey Begins With The First Step.........

As I have now completely blown any pretence of sticking to my original New Year's (New Year 2006 that is) resolution of writing one blog each day about one thought one deed and one human contact experienced on each day for one whole year I feel somewhat liberated. Despite failing to complete my self inflicted task I did manage, over the 365 days, to write around 270 blogs so I'm not going to beat myself up about it. The exercise has also had a somewhat benign effect in that it has acted at times as a conduit for anxieties, real or imagined, and in doing so has done much to alleviate them. I know I am not alone in this as blogs from Bobbit and Garwain 79 will testify. Finally however small scale and possibly irrelevant it might be to some I am at last writing down stuff, something I along with many others have been threatening to do all my life. I once saw a film by John Luc Goddard where two guys were going to catch a ferry. The ferry man started to sing to them, he was fat, ugly, ragged and unwashed and one of the potential passengers looked bored and wanted him to shut up. The other passenger, the main character in the film, said to his friend "wait, let him sing" so they did and he had a beautiful voice and sang like an angel. "How did you know he could sing like that?" said the first man "I didn't" said his friend "but everybody has at least one good song in them." I think everybody has at least one good story in them, unfortunately for you this isn't it. No matter I've enjoyed writing it and it has made a change from my reports on the days which, if this were part of my old New Year's resolution would have been about Sunday, Monday and Tuesday from the 14th to the 16th of Jan.