Well Feb is closing off quickly as a month I like this one it is short and quick and to the point.  There is that simple realization that there is more winter behind us than in front of us.  I am starting to think biking and getting off the Ctrain in the morning.  I am a big fan of riding my bike as often as I can.  This is a tricky time to ride though you run a larger risk of falling due to things like ice or loose gravel.  That said I am keeping my eye on things and hoping to start riding soon.  I have probably just started another barrage of snow outside.

There was a point at the start of 2013 where everyone begins to think about what to resolve themselves to.  I am not one to have a lot of resolutions or big plans when it comes to this.  I typically set my biking goals to try and out ride my KM's from the previous year.  Which is around 6000 KM's and if the weather and bike allow it is really something a person can do without too much extra effort.  I also started to recall that I did think of a resolution of a sort.  I cannot do the typical lose weight or anything like that.  I chose to define my year by a word.  I find most other resolutions complicated, so I said to myself find a word to define 2013 and remind yourself of that word throughout the year.  Well what is that word?  It is simply "discipline".  That is right a single word to define my resolve for this year.  Think about it like this, when I am considering loosing weight I remind myself use discipline in my eating and working out habits.  When I am working on getting better a photography I want to use discipline to study how others work and how I can improve my skills.  Better yet, discipline in how we spend money or budget for things.  That is a key one for this year.

Now I will apply discipline to my blog by making it a part of my routine throughout the year.  See how that works.  A word simple and very efficient.  It makes keeping that resolution throughout the year a lot easier.  Give it a whirl and see what you get.

One other point is this I had a wonderful person encourage me to step out to this form of metal exercise and I am glad I did.  I find myself thinking about what is around me and how to relate it to this small space of mine.  I have found this therapeutic and even relaxing.  Not to mention emptying my thoughts makes room for more to enter.  Now thats a good thing.  Thanks Dale.

Cheers everyone keep your eyes on the road and pedal hard.

Well it is a Friday off from work today.  One of the aspects that I do enjoy about my job is that there are some nice benefits around time off and such.  But typically the day is filled with the little things that need to be done.  Really they are not too time consuming.  I typically grumble but end up doing them, really just a good reason not to stay in bed.

We have been moving along on the reno's in the house, to our credit that would be the people doing the reno's we are making progress.  Not overworking ourselves but really just putting in time when we can on the project.  It is very therapeutic in some forms but I will admit my neck is a mess after putting  the ceiling up the other day.

What I am thinking about mostly this past couple of weeks is where my time is not being spent, with my camera in hand or in my digital darkroom.  Sadly they are typically used together so when time is not spent on one it is not spent on the other.  I have a wonderful software called Topaz Labs which I am very happy with.  They released a new update this week, I am quite interested in going ahead with the update but the posts on the Topaz site are not all that positive a lot of challenges for some who have updated.  I am thinking maybe wait a bit for some of the issues to be addressed.

We are talking a lot with our wonderful daughter she is moving closer to grad and to moving on to other things in life.  I am sure that as that time comes closer it will be something that we are all going to need help with.

With that the week is done, time to get ready for a hockey and then on with the weekend and oh yeah somebody turns 17 wow where did that go.

Wow moving on now as the week comes to a slow close.  I am once again reminded of the energy that my kids bring to our world.  The noise, chaos and otherwise fun that they bring.  Truly think that it is such a different world with them in my life.  But enough about the kids for now.

It is Valentines Day, that wonderful day full of all things love.  So I am pondering what is that I love?  Some very obvious choices come to mind of course, but I am thinking lets get a little deeper on this thought wave.  In many ways the thought of love is sometimes thrown around, maybe even misused by some.  But I am truly thinking that you need to dig a little deeper and be thoughtful about love and where it fits in your world.
   
There is no perfection in love in fact the lack of perfection is in my opinion what makes it work.  So stop looking for the perfect love and open up to the fact that love is right there in front of you in its imperfect form.  It is simple and yet complex.

Well hope you find time to share your love with somebody special in your world.  Take time to capture that moment and by all means enjoy because we really need to do that.

Happy Valentines Day.

Good day, seems that things are taking place in many directions today.  Eminence Front playing on the computer part of a live concert that I saw of the Who in Las Vegas.  So where do we go from here?  My first step into the blogosphere.  I guess what has me thinking today is the many things that are happening in and around my world.  What I am driving at is that I have had a lot of people that I have made contact with going in different directions.  Feels funny, everyone is doing something different but I have had that brief contact with them.  Have you ever had that funny feeling that you are watching all these lives moving around you and you are in the middle of it.  There are these threads some are brittle and others are strong and they connect us.  That is what I was feeling today.  At home I relaxed looked after the tasks around the house but these tiny glimpses into others worlds, the kids, my dad, my coworker, my kids friend, and so on.  Seems odd yet perfectly normal.

Well then the day progresses into another day and another moment which also is a strange feeling.  Like something is coming but I am not sure what.  Well we loose one and have another adventure with the others.  Life pulls and pushes in many directions.  I do not feel torn by this more that there is flow and that flow happens with or without my help.  As I wonder more about this I begin to feel that what I have thought was understood may have changed.  I think it is part of getting more comfortable with what my life is coming to mean.  I feel inspired by many things and I have found things that I truly enjoy.  It is that calm that I think may help me see the and feel the flow of life around me.

So this blog has spanned a few days and for that I am thankful as when I started we had calm that turned to sadness and then to a bit of craziness.  But that is what life is a progression of time and movement.  A flow of energy.  I try to take from the positive and move away from the negative not always a successful venture but maybe there is a balance.