Change on the winds
Even though my blog has changed names, to something perhaps a little more meaningful for this part of my journey, my life still reminds me of that faithful spot back on blogspot.com. A change of view is a trip down memory lane, especially that old, seemingly outdated theme and the ideas in the posts. Oh! how far we travel before we even realize. Many times life is like one of those moving floors at the airport, before you even take a step you’re already on a different path. Or so it seems sometimes. Anyway, for those of you who have been with me since acov I thought perhaps a look back might be interesting. And for any first timers or those of you who have joined since The Common Tone was started, a look back at the beginnings of this humble corner of the vast information highway (which I found out this morning weighs 0.2 millionths of an ounce and contains 40 petabytes or 40×1015 bytes of information at this moment). http://acov.blogspot.com/. Thank you blogspot for having such an excessive amount of extra space that you can keep unused blogs for years.
Where was I…..ah, change, a brand new topic for this blog. Well as many of you may have noticed there was a rather small number of posts here over the last school year, especially relative to the number from last year. This is due to many reasons, but which can be basically summed up by this: It was much harder than I anticipated coming back to the island from Austria. I thought I was doing well and that whole “aftershock” that I heard so much about didn’t apply to me. In fact it has taken me a full year to truly appreciate the experience and get a better handle on my perspectives.
I am thankful for the last year and what it has taught me. I don’t regret my choices, as difficult as some of them were. Without them I wouldn’t be where I am now, and I wouldn’t have found this new path. So I thank everyone who was with me and around me over this last year (also for putting up with me sometimes, I can only imagine what that must have been like at times). The last year has taught me, among many other things, to listen to what my life is telling me rather than what I think I need to do. Sometimes I just need a good knock in the head to be able to hear clearly. I have many people to thank for that.
I will be leaving music, not as a part of my life as that is simple impossible, but as a path of study. As of September 2007, I will be a student of the Renaissance College of the University of New Brunswick. There I will be participating in the Bachelor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Leadership, a mouthful to say the least. I’m not entirely sure what that means yet, but it sounds good and the program description fits me like a glove. It feels good so I’m taking the leap.
I have more free time now, which I am hoping will translate into more posts. I would love to hear from you, to hear what you are doing, and to see who is behind the mysterious 85 average hits a week. I am humbled by the faithfulness, be it three or 85 people and would love to hear from you.
Peace,
Nick
