This will be my last column of 2022, which means I’m taking inventory of all the lessons and light from another year of meeting new people and learning from their experiences and wisdom and setbacks (can’t get wisdom without those).
I started this year resolving to make more space in my heart for competing emotions. To stop pressuring myself to pick a feeling and then gang up on all my other feelings until they admit defeat.
I was exhausted, at the end of 2021, by a pandemic and a political landscape that made us pick sides, that elevated cruelty to new heights, that pitted us against one another and exploited our fears and frayed our nerves, that turned nuance into a weakness.
