And so 2021 comes to an end.
Another year of the pandemic. Another year of global uncertainty. Another year of challenges both professionally and personally. It has been a dark dark year.
Another year that I am grateful for.
We continue to progress in our careers. Dan has a new job. I have (2) new jobs. We worked with new teams and new people (while maintaining some close relationships with old ones). We achieved some good results for organizations (and for our mid-career resume)
We gained some perspectives, about children, about family, about places to live, and about how to be a team in marriage.
I made about 200 cocktails (If you look at my Instagram top 9 they are probably all alcohol). We played a lot of board games. We hiked a lot more in the summer and fall. We bought outdoor heating.
In a year of darkness, we are incredibly lucky and privileged, to live a somewhat normal, arguably mundane, life together.
And that’s all that I would ever want. A life that is mundane and next to normal.
I look at my life goals and I look at the plans to get there, and aside from travels (which impacts everyone in the pandemic), things are progressing pretty well. You win some, you lose some, but you keep learning and you keep moving forward. Regardless of the outcome, you always grow in the end.
Growth and comfort do not co-exist, after all.
Here to 2022. Happy New Year and have an incredible new year of growth, everyone!
Pace Fine Arts 