🗓️ TREE 515: When 2022 is still hanging around even though you didn’t ask it to

I don’t know what 2022 was like for you. Christine and I both got new jobs that saved us from drowning in the cost of living crisis, we made a fresh start in Southwest England after living in Wales for 22 years, and we lived through the most hellish thing we’ve experienced since our second child was stillborn at full term 23 years ago. I’ll write about it one day, but not yet.

A couple weeks ago I took my daughter back to her university accommodation. I took my son to the airport so he could fly home to California. Then my body decided it was done holding itself together. I fell into an exhaustion like I’ve never known. I had to take a day off work. (The last time I missed work for illness was at least 14 years ago.)

I’m telling you this because I’m so grateful you are in the FFOREST and that you stuck with me while I very definitely haven’t been at the top of my game.

I’m recovering into a new normal now. It’s going to take some time. Christine’s friend said to aim for feeling good by Easter. I’m younger than he is, so I’m aiming for sooner. In the meantime, I’ll keep writing the best stuff I can.

For today, please remember that change is a certainty. You might be in the valley of the shadow of death right now. You won’t be there forever. Keep breathing.

Please join me in an alternate reality where all of life is an 80s TV drama.

90s Electronic Songs That Would Have Been The Biggest Single If I Was In Charge 1 (Spotify).

Grow slowly
Jeff