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Warm beginning to the year
Jan. 7th, 2019 04:37 pmMy word of the year got off to a good start. The friends I stayed with up in Bellevue were warm and kind and low-key, and the folks who host the puzzle & game party are warm and kind as well.
Last night a visiting family came to Sunday night dancing. The kids are 3 and 7, and they know me from past visits, so they climbed all over me and wanted to dance next to me. The adults are living some version of the life I was supposed to live (tenured professor, and professor's wife with a PhD of her own), but I couldn't do it, and don't even want that. I admire and respect that they can pull it off. They openly express liking and respect back to me. Too bad they live so far away!
One of the benefits of choosing a word of the year is it brings my awareness to parts of it I already have. I'm fortunate in my long-distance friends.
Last night a visiting family came to Sunday night dancing. The kids are 3 and 7, and they know me from past visits, so they climbed all over me and wanted to dance next to me. The adults are living some version of the life I was supposed to live (tenured professor, and professor's wife with a PhD of her own), but I couldn't do it, and don't even want that. I admire and respect that they can pull it off. They openly express liking and respect back to me. Too bad they live so far away!
One of the benefits of choosing a word of the year is it brings my awareness to parts of it I already have. I'm fortunate in my long-distance friends.
