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The other day, when it was raining, I heard an odd noise outside my window...
I watched it roll in the rain down my street, feeling unaccountably
as though I had stumbled across a live action fairy tale. It took me a
moment before I realised I could photograph it.
In this last year, I have learned so many important things.
I have learned that I am still learning.
I have learned that not only do I like who I have become, but that I can be happy.
I have learned that I am the same person that I was at age five, only with more money and a better ability to reach the kitchen cupboards.
I have learned that the strong woman I hoped I would become when I was smaller, is much like the woman
I am today. I have learned to not take this for granted.
I have learned that magic to an adult is more powerful than the magic you hope is real when you are a child.
I have learned that I do not have to ignore the people who have hurt me in the past. I can accept them as part of my life, and it only makes me stronger.
I have learned that I am only looking forward to twenty-five, and beyond.
I have learned that I still love the web, and that the web tolerates me. That is enough.
I have learned that it really is true about breakfast being the most important meal of the day.
I have learned that I can be an artist without wearing it as a badge. Same thing with having chips on my shoulder about my intellgence.
I have learned that I can be passionate about so many more things than just the few I defined for myself as a teenager.
I have learned that I want to sing like Ella Fitzgerald.
I have learned that, blessedly, I am still a redhead. I didn't grow out of it like everyone thought I would. I didn't grow out of most things people thought I would.
I have learned that sometimes, friends are more forever than you thought they could be.
I am happy. It was a hard lesson to learn. But I am thankful for twenty-three, and for the gifts of the year 2003.