Hello again! It's early in 2025 and I am trying to catch up. 2023 was an absolute blur. I started the year with a new job and a big trip planned and that's about all I managed to do in 2023. I onboarded, then, in March, I went to Antarctica! It was an incredible trip, and left surprisingly little down time. After I got back from Antarctica it was full throttle on the job, working weekends at the winery, and I didn't come up for air until the end of the year. Me on the Antarctic Continent This year's list is quite short as a result. I didn't have a lot of time for reflection, I mainly just had my head down and charged through. I didn't have the bandwidth to discover many new things with starting up counseling again, trying to learn a new job and ways of working, staying involved with my family and trying to be present in my relationships. But these are a few songs that landed well throughout the year. The Angels - Am I Ever Gonna See Your ...
Perhaps the best way to sum up my 2020 is to say that my world got smaller but more focused. When time is given back to you in a way you never expected it would be, figuring out the right ways to spend it and with whom are vitally important. We're still holding our breath collectively as we wait for the vaccine to be more widely available. We're wondering about the untold long-range effects of this pandemic on our interior lives, our relationships, our governments, our economies, and many other aspects of our lives. But I will say that the pandemic sharpened my idea of what home is, helped me hone my concept of adventure, and brought immediacy and urgency to understanding the idea and necessary components of meaningful connection (like with my sweet new nephew and the rest of my immediate family, who now reside all in one geographic area.) 2020 also allowed for a concentrated study on desire, both as a concept and an effort to inventory my own. Music proved once again a re...
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