{"id":848,"date":"2007-12-21T13:59:18","date_gmt":"2007-12-21T20:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edtechpost.ca\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/21\/happy-solstice-2007\/"},"modified":"2007-12-21T13:59:18","modified_gmt":"2007-12-21T20:59:18","slug":"happy-solstice-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/21\/happy-solstice-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy Solstice, Year End Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>(I have a half-dozen posts to write that don&#8217;t seem to be getting done, so this will have to suffice for now. Maybe over the holidays &#8211; oh yeah, right, &#8220;holidays.&#8221; Time *off*.)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tonight (and tomorrow, we don&#8217;t discriminate) is one of our biggest celebrations of the year, Winter Solstice. I hope you have a great one too and drive away any winter doldrums as you welcome the rebirth of the light.<\/p>\n<p>And being in a relfective mood I thought I&#8217;d note some things I am grateful for from the past year, and things I am wishing for in 2008<\/p>\n<p><strong><u>What I am grateful for in 2007<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>My family, and both mine and their continued good healths.<\/li>\n<li>Being able to work in my chosen field and live where I live. Any gripeing you hear me do throughout the year is unfounded. I am truly fortunate.<\/li>\n<li>The fellowship of the <a href=\"http:\/\/victoriaunitarian.ca\/index.php\">Unitarian Universalist community we are a part of in Victoria<\/a>. Their ability to embrace difference and diversity while also standing up for social justice is an example I always hope to emulate.<\/li>\n<li>Twitter, for all its failings. Or rather, for the people who I get to hang with in Twitter. Their support, conversation and everyday companionship means so much to me.<\/li>\n<li>Being able to see so many good friends at different events this year. I \u201csee\u201d them everyday online, but the amount of cool ideas and projects that come out of even 10 minutes jamming over lunch or between sessions in a hallway just can\u2019t be beat<\/li>\n<li>Brother Leon and The Whoremonks, for saving my soul, getting me to play music and jamming with me no matter how bad it sounds to anyone else<\/li>\n<li>To The Flaming Lips, Radiohead, Amon Tobin, The White Stripes, Beethoven, Beck, Blockhead, and M.I.A. for all doing their part to make joyous raucous music that lifts me up<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong><u>And my wishes for 2008?<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More time (and more focus) to get more skills, do some development work<\/li>\n<li>For Dr. Bruce Landon\u2019s continued and speedy recovery.<\/li>\n<li>That my proposal for a new \u201csocial and web 2.0\u201d Edutools site is accepted and supported<\/li>\n<li>That Gardner Campbell will come out West and I get some time to hang with him<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Blessed Be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(I have a half-dozen posts to write that don&#8217;t seem to be getting done, so this will have to suffice for now. Maybe over the holidays &#8211; oh yeah, right, &#8220;holidays.&#8221; Time *off*.) Tonight (and tomorrow, we don&#8217;t discriminate) is one of our biggest celebrations of the year, Winter Solstice. I hope you have a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wordpress\/2007\/12\/21\/happy-solstice-2007\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Happy Solstice, Year End Reflections&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[347,392,413],"class_list":["post-848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-rest","tag-reflections","tag-solstice","tag-thanks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottleslie.ca\/edtechpost\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}