Since new year resolutions never do stick for me, or rather I pre-empt disappointment by not making them at all, I’ve decided to make christmas resolutions. Quiet little promises that shall work their way to fulfilment, preferably through minimal effort on my end but failing that, through honest sincerity and a selective memory.

1. Get my driving licence
2. Make more photographs
3. Make more drawings
4. Read more
5. Travel more

Save for the first one, they are pretty non-specific and non-committal. Well. Well, I’d like very much for my stuff to be shown somewhere, and I think we’re at an impasse where they think I don’t spend enough time on them and where I think they are right. And so, I spend too many hours thinking about that problem, and then too many subsequent days drafting up an ideal(-ised) solution. 

6. Overthink less

On a slightly separate note: I don’t think I’ve ever re-gifted, but here’s how to get away with it if you do or are planning to.