New (Year) hair before and after brushing. (Better-lit photos coming soon.)

💬 “We are being asked to no longer abandon ourselves, to embrace and make space for all parts of ourselves to come alive and be honored.” Lindsay Mack’s Monthly Medicine for January 2022

Happy New Year from the hair I just cut off in a literal and symbolic act of lightening my load.

Selfies to come after a shower and hair air drying.

🔖 Read 6 ways to deal with anxiety and uncertainty this winter.

One way to embrace radical uncertainty is to develop coping mechanisms. This NPR piece suggests some possibilities.

Closing out the year with a couple of runs in Hades 🎮 followed by some Star Trek: The Next Generation 🖖🏻. Here’s to staying on-brand in 2022.

🔖 Read What the Aztecs can teach us about happiness and the good life.

This is an excellent way to think about how to live.

My only resolution for 2022: Embrace [radical uncertainty] (https://www.johnkay.com/2020/02/12/radical-uncertainty/).

🔖 Read There Is No “Best of” List From Me This Year. 📚

Beautiful writing from Kelly Jensen: how books impacted her this year; where she is in her journey as a writer, book blogger, reader. I’ll revisit this as I think about how I want to engage with & around books in 2022.

I just finished the midseason finale of #StarTrekDiscovery and I thought it was beautifully done. Space family talking through problems is my fave. This is SOCIAL science fiction. ❤️ Replies may contain spoilers. 📺🖖🏻

Me, watching STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION and seeing a newborn in a glass bassinet in sickbay with the birthing parent nowhere in sight: “What, in the 24th century there’s no rooming in?” (Rooming in wasn’t common in 1990 but it was a thing by 1994.) 📺🖖🏻