Resolution

For this week’s Trifecta prompt, we were asked for our New Year’s resolutions, in only three words. This year promises to be a momentous one for me personally, for a number of reasons, I’m graduating from law school, taking the bar exam, beginning Doctor Who and Babylon Five….at any rate, this phrase came to mind.

See the mountains.

Now, you might take that as some sort of metaphorical reference to the Sound of Music, climbing every mountain and fording every stream like the Oregon Trail computer game all over again, and in some respects it is, but it’s also literal. I have never seen the mountains. That is to say, I haven’t seen really big mountains. I live in Southern Indiana; we have the occasional bit of hill, but not like that. I’ve driven through the Appalachians in Eastern Kentucky and West Virginia, and those are very nice and picturesque, but I’ve never been out west, to the Rockies. I want to see peaks. Colorado. All that. The proverbial “Go West, young man” has a certain ring to it. Plus, hey, after three years of intense legal study and agonization, road trip!

Anyway. There it is. 2013 has been an interesting year. 2014 promises to be even more so.