What's in store...

This new year is starting out just fine for me.

For whatever reason (probably time, a lot of thinking, and some Divine Intervention) I feel like I'm popping out of the 'season of despair' I've been in since my sweet brother in law died.

I've noticed this because of a change in my productivity mostly.

This 'upswing' might also be due to my wife finally turning me into an actual 'exercise person'. I've gotten to the point, in my current triathlon training cycle, where my body is physically/chemically looking forward to my workouts. I'm swimming, biking and running much further than ever before with much more ease. Case in point, yesterday I jumped in the pool for only the second time this cycle and swam the full race distance (1.5km) in a respectable time. This is a major change from when I jumped in to start my first training cycle three years ago.

Proof that progress is incremental and (if you keep at it) irreversible.

This is encouraging me in my working life as well.

My church is still small (which makes my feel a little tired from time to time) but it seems to be very healthy (as evidenced by people's spiritual growth) and I know, from experience, that healthy things grow.

My show biz life is another story. I feel, on that front, completely perched on the edge of a precipice. It's been three years now that we've been working to take the 'next step' and I feel that this year might finally be the year. We've got several key projects poised to 'pop' from concept into actuality and, if they make that transition, I'll be busier than ever before. I've been writing a lot (with a writing-partner, which has been really fun) and am just generally feeling actualized and ready. We're going to push a little harder to get entrenched in L.A this year (and in the years following) so I expect to be in H'wood a week per month (or so) starting in February, to connect and meet and mesh and see if we can develop some productive synergies there.

I also passed 1,500+ episodes of TV produced this month, so that's something.

I 'get' that progress (personally) can be so intangible so as to make it almost a figment of our imagination, but I can't help feeling like this new year is full of promise.

T