Carpe Diem, and all that jazz

Generally speaking I am a firm believer in the concepts of living every day to its fullest and seizing every moment - real Dead Poets Society stuff. "Oh Captain, my Captain", and all that jazz, but as as of late, as Summer winds down I often find myself silently wishing whole days away. Increasingly often I find myself lost in long silent moments of reflection where all I want is a return to the routine that is my life at home, or at least, my life when I am working close enough to home to enjoy the comfort of my own bed every night. While I can certainly recognize the attraction of this return to the routine, what I have a hard time reconciling is the desire for this Summer to be over. It has been a great summer season, filled with interesting challenging artistic opportunities at work, wonderful family time, and lots of fun creative experiences with new and old friends.
I suppose that some small part of me believes that a return to the routine will make all of my current cares and concerns vanish, but ultimately I know that each and every new day brings with it both a whole host of new challenges to overcome and a collection of perfect moments to be treasured. The important part is recognizing those moments for what they are and not letting them pass you by.

I think I broke my blog...

Obviously it has been a while since I have had a chance to update this little experiment of mine.
Life gets busy.
I think we can all appreciate and understand this sentiment, but to be honest, it sounds really false and dishonest to me right now.
A more truthful sentiment would be that I have been working an incredible amount of ridiculous hours recently as part of my latest project.
But that's enough about that.
So yes, the blog has been neglected, but not nearly as much as some way more important factors in my life.  The first obviously being my Family.  I have seen my beautiful daughter exactly one day out of the last 21.  And that sucks.  These are important, formative hours of her young life, and I'm not around. It breaks my heart.  Ultimately it is important to remember that the whole reason behind all of these long hours at work is to better provide for her and to give her an even better head start in life than the one I was lucky enough to receive.  Even with this in mind, it is really hard to miss all of this time, even though we are sleeping under the same roof.
Oh well,
Hopefully next week I can get a portion of my life back...