Joy of Six at Resolving the New Year has posted a collection of thoughts on New Year’s Resolutions.
I think my favourite is

He who breaks a resolution is a weakling;
He who makes one is a fool.

~F.M. Knowles

whoever F. M. Knowles is. Honest, I looked him/her up on google and came up with lots of Knowleses, but no F. M.

Anyway, I hate New Year’s resolutions so this year again, I won’t be a fool and make any.

I prefer to look at the year past.

People that I want to remember
I want to have a thought for Meg at MandarinDesign who passed away in June. As her site is back online, we can still go and learn from her.
I haven’t heard from Milt at Milt’s Muse for a long time, but he too has taught me a few important things.

People from the blogosphere that I met with this past year, in chronological order:

Leo and Elly, my photographer friends for Norwich, England, that I met through flickr
Walt from WCS and Ken from Living the Life in Saint-Aignan. Can you believe that Walt Ken and I had never met, but heard about one another through common friend Bob, and that he had stayed at my flat while I was away?
Naomi, the activist and the knitter from A Little Red Hen
Ronni, who’s been my blogging inspiration since I started blogging, from Time Goes By
ML at Full Fathom Five, a dedicated and thoughtful language teacher
Millie, at My Mom’s Blog, who’s an example for me. When I grow up, I want to be just like her
Vlogger Steve Garfield and wife Susan, come on Claude, it’s Carol!, both so helpful and knowledgeable
Peggy, transplanted from Iowa to Scotland, and loving it, from Day to Day Life of a Lazy Gardener

I won’t go into a list of people I haven’t met in the flesh but that I consider friends. It would take too long and I wouldn’t want to forget anyone. But you know who you are. I stop by your blogs almost daily and read you.

So to all my new friends and of course, all my old friends and my family and relatives,

I don’t know about René Descartes, but blogging has become so much part of my life, that no doubt, I could say I blog, therefore I am.
As I am pretty much a dilettante, I never thought I’d keep this up for such a long time. I also thought that I would get tired of taking photos, just as I have given up learning how to play the guitar and later on the recorder –the recorder got on everyone’s nerves– , and a lot more stuff I have even totally forgotten about.
But it turns out that even though I have been through “dry” stages, wondering if I had any more to say, blogging has become a pleasant routine.
After one year, I have given up feeding my photoblog one photo a day, but I did hold on for a full year. And a month ago, I started a French blog, quite different from this one, called Vieux, C’est Mieux !, which would translate as Older is Better, I guess.
My blog visiting has become much easier thanks to RSS. Now don’t ask me what RSS is exactly, because I haven’t got a clue. All I know is that it’s something that allows me to know what and when you publish something on your blog.
I am using Google Reader, with a notifier, and when someone on my blog route publishes, I get an alert. Somehow, I read more blogs in less time. Isn’t that great?
So thank you to all my blogging friends, those I have actually met, and those blogospheric ones, for a great blogging year.