{"id":1272,"date":"2018-01-04T12:03:52","date_gmt":"2018-01-04T19:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/?p=1272"},"modified":"2018-01-04T12:08:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-04T19:08:51","slug":"the-newest-of-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2018\/01\/the-newest-of-years","title":{"rendered":"the newest of years"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1273\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1273\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1273\" src=\"http:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/flowers.jpg\" alt=\"an image of paerwhites that I got which bloomed one poozly bloom and keeled over\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/flowers.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/flowers-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-1273\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">underwhelming paperwhites<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I came home from the annual New Year&#8217;s Eve Party with a sore throat and it&#8217;s now the 4th and I&#8217;ve been dressed for about four hours of 2018. On the mend though, today I am just pretending it&#8217;s a snow day even though the weather has been fine. No bomb cyclone here. Working on my end-of-the-year lists.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/librarian.net\/stax\/4833\/2017-in-libraries\/\">Libraries visited in 2017<\/a> &#8211; one of my favorite things<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/librarian.net\/stax\/4822\/2017-reading-list-and-commentary\/\">Books read in 2017<\/a> &#8211; another one<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/iamthebestartist\/albums\/72157691077701914\">Photos from the Holiday Season 2017<\/a> &#8211; beginning around Thanksgiving and ending around New Years. In hindsight, it&#8217;s no surprise I got run down<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I got a physical which says that, despite my high level of health anxieties, I am fine. Cholesterol is a little high. Mammograms always require <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jessamyn\/status\/942793526781317120\">an alarming do-over<\/a> before getting the all-clear. I&#8217;ve got some grief weight to lose. The weird shoulder pain I&#8217;ve been having went away entirely when I quit sitting at my desktop computer all day.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m going to put my new calendar up today (I get them from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neuyear.net\/\">NeuYear<\/a> and they are quite good) and that will probably be it. Everything I thought was going to be a hassle about the holiday season in this Complicated Year really was not. I often feel like I&#8217;m coasting when things mostly work, like somehow I&#8217;m not working hard enough at being alive, that there&#8217;s some harder work I should be doing. This year, I&#8217;m just trying to take it as it comes to me, if at all possible. I&#8217;m dialing back on my travel (only going to Toronto and Hawaii this year as far as airplanes go) and ramping up on my back-burnered projects. Every year I pick a word or two to be my little re-centering mantra a quickie reminder of the things I want, or that I want to work for. The past few years have been FREEDOM, ANTI-RACIST, LET THIS DAY BE GOOD. This year I&#8217;m working from a few angles. My word is WAY, for three reasons<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get out of my own <strong>WAY<\/strong>. (i.e. take myself out of spaces where I don&#8217;t need to be, stop tossing up obstacles to things I want)<\/li>\n<li>Find a <strong>WAY<\/strong>. (work on goals not problems, I&#8217;m a constant problematizer which is great for troubleshooting, less great for life)<\/li>\n<li>Give things a<strong>WAY<\/strong>. (self-explanatory, I am starting with this little stack of old iPhones I have)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Simple. Three letters. Attainable by me. Best wishes for whatever you&#8217;re trying to get out of this year, may it be easier for us than last year was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/2018\/01\/the-newest-of-years\" rel=\"bookmark\" title=\"Permalink to the newest of years\"><p>I came home from the annual New Year&#8217;s Eve Party with a sore throat and it&#8217;s now the 4th and I&#8217;ve been dressed for about four hours of 2018. On the mend though, today I am just pretending it&#8217;s a snow day even though the weather has been fine. No bomb cyclone here. Working on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","h-entry","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1272"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1276,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1272\/revisions\/1276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jessamyn.com\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}