Search Results: new year's eve
Auld Lang Syne
by angeliska on December 31, 2014
Right now, I am standing on the brink between one year and the next, and for the first time in a long time – I feel totally different. The long, long ago feels a lot farther away. So much has (…)
Year of the Horse
by angeliska on December 31, 2013
The tail end of the year is about to brush past us, this imagined point between now and then that keeps me feeling like I’m dancing on the head of a pin – trying to keep up, to push forward, (…)
Family Vacation – Hank Williams' Grave
by angeliska on August 8, 2012
When I was six years old, my mother and father and I drove from Taylor, Texas to Montgomery, Alabama to make a pilgrimage to Hank Williams’ grave. This was to be our first, last and only family vacation. At the (…)
An Epically Epic and Fairly Tardy Year in Review – or, HOLY SHIT: 2011!
by angeliska on January 23, 2012
My goodness, but 2011 was a whirlwind – I feel like I’ve barely caught my breath from it all, though we’re weeks into it now. For a lot of reasons, it feels like the new year didn’t really begin until (…)
FUCK THE PLAN 2012
by angeliska on December 31, 2011
So. 2012 is upon us, the juggernaut peeping out coyly from behind the broom-closet door. I barely have time to glance at it, really – my hair still wet from the deluge of 2011, my arms full of projects, my (…)
Waves
by angeliska on April 14, 2011
O much neglected corner of the world – little quiet place where I come to lay down my findings, hollowed-out tree trunk where I store treasure. I am embarrassed at how little I’ve been able to find the time, the (…)
Stargazer Honey
by angeliska on January 3, 2010
Our New Year’s Eve was truly magical. Despite a rocky start fraught with Mercury’s meddlings, we managed to create a really solid camp and the coziest tipi yet! In a pinch, duct tape, scavenged rope and a random dental tool (…)
Blue Moon
by angeliska on December 30, 2009
Here we go, darlings – on the precipice of a new year, and just nearly ready to dry our sticky wings on the other side of the future! 2010, for real? I mean, doesn’t it seem slightly preposterous, as if (…)
Pink Moons
by angeliska on December 31, 2008
Ah, another year has found us struck dumb in awe at the turning- this year a strange one, where the perspective has not yet caught up to me. I have lots of resolutions and goals for this year that I’ve (…)
Lucky Stars and Garters
by angeliska on December 31, 2006
At the turning of the year, when so much has changed- my life so transformed, so altered by tumult and blessing simultaneously- I am galvanized by it, and yet with scant few moments of respite in which to reflect or (…)