The last hurrah

Miniature garden across from the Ecotrust Building. The lone twig set against the mosaic tiles appears to be detached from the tree! But it's not.

This is it. The last hurrah. 
(Lots of January backblips, if you care to peek. See esp. this one.)
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Am I the only American who reads Oliver Burkeman in The Guardian? Sometimes he hits the nail on the head. Here's my latest find. It describes the other reason I'm taking a sabbatical from this site.

’Learn to say no’: it's such a cliché. 
Easy to assume it means only saying no to tedious, unfulfilling stuff. 
But ‘the biggest, trickiest lesson,’ as the author Elizabeth Gilbert once put it, 
‘is learning how to say no to things you do want to do’
so that you can do a handful of things that really matter. 
Our only hope of beating overwhelm may be to limit, radically,
what we're willing to get whelmed by in the first place.
— Oliver Burkeman, theguardian.com

Right now I'm whelmed by Blipfoto. 
Which brings me to my second farewell quote.

Spending time on lower priority goals, 
even though they’re helpful and generate value, 
can leave you worse off than if you had avoided them all together.
Behaviors that consume more of our time and attention—
 e.g., social media, web surfing, chronic networking—
often fall onto the low priority end.
— Cal Newport, Study Hacks Blog

Therefore, as Woody Guthrie sang, "So long, it's been good to know ya."
At least, so long for now. 
Blessings!