Hello, friends!

Though I've kept up with the newsletters, it feels a little like I'm emerging from a dark age of my own right now. Time after time this year, life has derailed, disrupted, disabused me of any idea that things might go the way I see them in my mind.

And yet here I am.

I take quite a lot of comfort in the things I've learned about myself this year. That I am stronger—my heart, my body, my self—than I knew I was. That I have far more to give, to offer, than I believed I did. That I have deep, deep value, that I matter, simply because I'm here. I've shown up for the people I love, in every way I can possibly imagine showing up. I have started important things, and not quit them. I have persisted through difficult things that, I think, might previously have flattened me. That I might have let flatten me.