How're YOU hanging in there? Yeaaaaaaah, me too. Ooof.
I so miss writing these missives, but lately, life just hasn't felt worth sharing. Things are
so hard right now. Professionally, business is scary slow (even though I'm
really excited about what's ahead). Personally, that 'ole seasonal depression feels spicer than normal
already this year, and daily life feels like an absolute slog. I mean, dirty dishes? Again? In this economy? I think not.
Culturally, the news continues to be so utterly horrifying (to the point of nightmares for me TBH), and everything just feels so bleeeeak. I've never felt smaller and just, well, powerless. Neither of those feelings is comfortable for me. (Where my other ‘get-organized-and get-er-done’ Capricorn Rising/Aries Sun's at and please tell me how you're handling all this? I need HALP.)
As I've
mentioned in years past, I don't make resolutions for the New Year, I choose a word as a theme for the year. And I had the HARDEST time landing on anything this year that felt right. Last year's word was ‘
Abundance’, and while I had to drastically shift my thinking about what true abundance meant, in the end, life felt very full last year, albeit in new and different ways.
But this year, I've landed on JOY as my word. Which on the surface may seem like arranging deck chairs on the proverbial Titanic, but with everything that's happening right now, if I'm not actively searching on a regular basis for things that bring joy, I might sink faster than a lead balloon. And I know that I'll have to shift my thinking there, too, but thinking in new ways is a good thing. A vital, necessary thing.
So, if you need me, I'll be wearing 17 layers of clothing trying to keep warm in another foot of snow, searching for a glimmer of hope for Spring in the home-grown strawberry jam I stashed in the freezer last year, and ACTIVELY gathering up all the…