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I prefer the term “New Year’s Aspirations” to the more common “New Year’s Resolutions”. Simply put, if I make a New Year’s Resolution and fail to follow through, that thing is, by definition, unresolved. And the only people who like unresolved things are jazz musicians.
Resolving to accomplish something has such a bold finality to it. This is likely a wholly semantical argument, but for some reason, aspirations sit better with me than resolutions. I have no idea what 2010 holds, but I’m aspiring to do a few things—to read more, to learn to fly fish, to lose 30lbs. I don’t know if I’ll write to you a year from now as a well-read, physically fit fly fisherman, but I want to give it a try. To rise up. Seek ambitiously. Aim. Aspire.
So, faithful readers, I hope your 2010 is full of aspiration. And, if things go well for us all, some eventual resolution, too.
I echo your aspiration to learn to fly fish. I also echo the other aspirations, but I’ve been wanting to learn to fly fish for years. I even have a pole and reel.
said Matt Donovan
at 10:06am on Monday
Two keys to learning fly fishing: a good mentor, and a place of wide solitude.
Bream in a farm pond, preferably on a spring evening, are perfect practice — even if your real goal is trout on a stream. My dad and I fly fish bream every spring (we call ‘em bluegills up north).
In spring and early summer they provide fast action, which is key. Learning to cast is only half the pursuit. Setting the hook and playing the fish in are equally challenging.
Good clean fun, to be sure.
said blaine
at 8:44pm on Friday