Lately, I’ve come to understand that cultivating joy is a survival strategy. Having read Viktor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Meaning long ago, I’m not a newcomer to this concept. But even so, historically I have set aside the lesson in favor of the opposite course.
2024 Reflections, and Looking Ahead to Next Year
I’ve spent the last several months in pursuit of a wide array of goals. Sometimes, the chase ended with significant, meaningful wins! Finishing a new manuscript. Discovering I’m capable of running 10Ks. Falling in love. But I’ve also experienced a number of setbacks, and exchanges that ended in bad news, and these are the incidents that keep drawing my attention like moths to a flame.
Diving into Spring: a Climate Fellowship, Book Revisions, and More
I’m hesitant to speak too soon, lest doing so break the spell, but so far 2024 has been… really good to me? Who would have thought! (Not me) True, there is a *lot* going on, and my brain feels like a hornet’s nest as I try to juggle it all. But still, after years of what I often felt to be living in limbo, it feels good to be moving forward.