C-c-c-changes
Years pass… things change—sometimes things stay the same. Here we are, though, 1/2/22. 2021 was another rough year in many ways, but I also had some really good things happen. Boy, I remember 2019 and going into 2020. Man, I was excited. I wrote a poem. But 2020 was one of the hardest years of my life. I started in the hospital, and then Covid came upon our country like bees to lemonade. We were so unprepared; it was so frightening. I decided to leave my job because I didn’t want the exposure, and lo and behold, I discovered I uncovered my real passion, which is writing. So getting to my new life happened, I think for those reasons it was not necessarily so bad that the whole world had to pause a bit. It made me realize how much anxiety I had about work and how it inundated my whole life. Nathan, I think I was able to see how much happier I was at home, so we decided to write full-time, do my hobbies, knitting, and coloring projects, take care of my house and man and cats, and change the pace my life. So that was a good thing that came of the lockdown. We got our cats, Phryne and Dot, in 2020. We both joined Coursera and did many interesting classes. 2021 came. I did not have high hopes, and yes, 2021 has been a bear. But we had our marvelous road trip, and I did start writing my novel and met new friends from around the world in my Discord writing group. They’re amazing, and I’ve come to love them all. There’s Heath in Australia, Alina in Alberta, Robert in Korea, Althea in Vermont, Steph (I can’t remember where Steph is!). Shoutout to you guys! You keep me writing, even on days, I don’t want to! We spruced up our home a bit this year. Anyhow, what I wanted to say is, when you look at these years so surrounded with the clamor of politics, and Covid, and injustice and climate change, it’s good to take stock of the positive things too. Don’t write off the good with the bad.
2022 resolution is to write at least 500 words a day, whether it be on my novel, blog or even my journal. I’m a writer, gotta take the work of it along with the joy.
