What a year – I am utterly exhausted.<\/p>\n
I haven’t yet decided if it’s that I get tired more easily, the world is more tiring, or some grand combination (complication?) thereof. Every year I try to take these weeks to refuel, rejuvenate, or at least relearn to pretend that my curiosity about the world has returned. Every year I fear it won’t happen, I feel a little less there<\/em> than I did the year before, and then I do it all over again – usually better than the year before.<\/p>\n But it gets harder to smile so much, and fun becomes work rather than the other way around.<\/p>\n Everything I’ve done lately has told me I need to play and experiment more, and not less. I need to trust myself, and the languages I know. I need to make less ‘to do’ lists and stop being so anal about web documentation (and everything else that this kind of behavior connotes).<\/p>\n My new year’s resolution is to let go just a li’l bit more. Who’s with me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What a year – I am utterly exhausted. 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