We’re almost there
Oh, hi friends!
Final stretch! How’re you doing?
You might be grinding through a final few days of work. Or thinking about how different this holiday season looks. Or grappling with the reality, now that we’re at the end of it, of the progress (and regress) of the year.
I understand.
Remember: The only way out is through.
You can do it. We can do it.
The only way out is through.
“Putting together a novel is essentially putting together the lives of strangers I’m coming to know. In some ways it’s not unlike putting together my own life. I think I know what I’m doing when in truth I have no idea. I just keep moving forward.”
From a novella (long non-fiction piece? what would we call this?) by Ann Patchett in Harper’s. So much here — from picking up a random book to meeting Tom Hanks to meeting Tom Hanks’ assistant to becoming friends with her and, eventually, helping her get into a clinical trial for pancreatic cancer treatment and having this woman live with her and her husband during what became this pandemic year. A story of what can come from a chance meeting. I couldn’t stop reading!
Look Toward the Sky Tonight
Today might be the shortest day of the year, but that news is offset by something else exciting: Jupiter and Saturn snuggling close in the sky! “You'd have to go all the way back to just before dawn on March 4, 1226, to see a closer alignment between these objects visible in the night sky,” said one astronomer. They’ve gotten closer and closer for the last two weeks but tonight, if you look west right around sunset, you’ll see them at their coziest. It might make you feel both big and small, all at once.
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Thanks, as always, for reading.
Love, Kara