I'm enjoying the euphemisms, to an extent, or at least I'm beginning to notice the emerging world around me. I've said lately that I'm taking a break...I'm recalibrating my scales (for the astrology-conscious), or that I've returned to the moon. Beyond all this, instead of wondering why I haven't done anything in three months, I'm beginning to pick up the tools around me.

The first thing I reached for without realizing it was my camera. Now, I don't really care that I don't have a mega-expensive camera to play with. Well, I do have my film camera, but at the moment I'm too impatient and maybe too impulsive for that. Nevertheless, I added a few albums to my webshots page (http://community.webshots.com/user/sjirel) and am anxious to see where my eye takes me.

I also read a couple of plays, but I haven't put word one on paper (or screen) because I've just shifted a little in my focus. I'm still in the process of a huge undertaking at home: cutting away the past and letting go of old patterns. I am shredding a majority of paperwork and throwing away (or donating) things that I don't need. I don't want to have any "just in case" items, I don't want any things in storage containers that weren't originally intended as storage containers, and I'm looking to affect change and a new life that's leaner and ultimately more self-fulfilling. Did I mention world peace and weight loss?

There is a condition of belonging and not belonging, of being who people know you to be versus being who you aspire to be, beyond all modesty. I would have to say that the greatest catalyst for change is simplicity. Sometimes, when a life gets complicated, the best way to see yourself in it is to start removing things until everything around you is a reflection.

Good night from the moon...the Earth looks great from here.