Thirty-one in Pictures

A few days ago, a friend and I were trying to recall how we celebrated our birthday every year going back to our 18th birthdays.  My birthday from last year was easy enough to recall as were some highlight birthdays from the past decade, but I struggled to remember many of them.  I thought how funny it was that in a given decade, a given year, a given day, only a few memories survive.  Do I really have so few experiences that leave a lasting imprint?  Or is my mind starting to fail me already at the ripe age of 31?  … So for my 31st year project, I’ve assigned myself the task of keeping this photo journal blog:  take and post one photo a day, with some thoughts or quotes thrown in, to help me remember what I did and who I was when I was 31.   (My birthday was four days ago, so already I’m behind on this project (characteristically me); hence, the first four photos on this blog may not have been taken on the date with which they’re tagged.)  I look forward to looking back in a year and seeing what adventures, surprises, mundanity, worries, growth, etc. I experience this 31st year.

– CB, January 23, 2010