Resolutions

Although I have never been one to practice the tradition of sitting down with pen and paper and writing down lists of behaviors which I wish to change. I find myself in the position of needing to change the "image" of my life. The most specific aspect of this change is to give substance to the ideas which long to take shape - to put thoughts into words, and shapes into forms.

Resolution is the details of an image.

Indeed. Technically, an image is made of little pieces of information captured by a device. The more details the better and bigger a picture can become. When I think of all the details in my life, I must have some high resolution imagining happening.

If we resolve to speak only the truth. In order to honor this resolution, we must change not only the way we see the world but the way the world see us. We will alter our "image." And thereby altering our imagining. This type of resolution is like throwing a large rock in a small pond: every part of the surface will be affected and much of the still water beneath.

But in images it is the small things that have the greatest impact: moving a little to the left to capture more or less light or finding the perfect object on which to focus the attention. When an artist or photographer creates the composition of their work they sometime have clear intention as to the details and sometime they are guided or happen upon the details.

We make decision about our time, our friends, our commitments, sometimes with intention, sometimes with guidance and sometimes without ever considering the impact of those decisions on the composition of our lives. We can not always see the impact, by looking at the result, or the outcome. *****

I love colors that dramatically change with the light, like a wall that is indigo in the light before dawn and changes to violet as the light fades to night. Sometimes words are like that, they seem to encompass all aspects of a process. So that resolution refers not only to the details of an image, it also refers to the creation of these pieces to facilitate greater understanding of image itself. Often we cannot understand the bigger picture without understand and examining the smaller details that make up the image.

And then we put it all back together again. And what do we have?

Resolution as the solution to a problem.

This year I will take the opportunity to examine the details in my life, to appreciation of the individual pieces of myself that I give up and give over to others, and to focus on the impact I have as a whole on those I love and shall come to love. And that is my resolution.