Hey friends, you know I was thinking about the last few years as we've tried to resume any semblance of normalcy

And I don't know about you but I'm pretty worn out

Zoom meetings webinars the endless march of email marketing, the sense

that we're supposed to be together, and yet going through the airport is a nightmare.

I used to dress up when I flew. Now I just try to find

the easiest shoes to take on and off in order to get through the TSA line in one piece.

As we're facing the end of the year, whatever that means to you, I feel like it's a chance to just think about the dynamics of our relationships and the way that things have changed and yet are also

uncomfortably the same. I wrote a little piece a year ago that I want to read to you now because I think it's still applicable. But bottom

line is this, we're getting through it together one day at a time, hug your people, stay present to the moment, and take good care of yourself

because you are the essential ingredient that makes the whole thing work.

Hi friend, let the rope go slack.

In the last couple years, not a single person on the planet escaped the traumatic impact of the pandemic.

Unlike a car accident, where you can draw support from your friend who was not in the accident with you,

this pandemic was global.

There was nowhere to turn for support because not a single person went

unimpacted. The reentry into life as usual this year feels

tinny, off, not quite right because there's been no one to show us the way. We've had trauma of a

global scale. To combat the feelings of being out of control and vulnerable?

We arm ourselves with plans.

We prepare a feast and decorate the table

and invite our loved ones in.

Or we pack up the goodies and make the difficult journey to see the people we love who we haven't

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