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8 learnings from my younger self
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Miscellaneous shades of grief
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What my gut knows
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Changing my narrative
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The H is silent
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2019: Highlights from a humdrum year
In thinking about the year just past, my first thought was that it was a boring year. Not bad as such, but I felt like I went through the whole year without a satisfactory answer to the perennial question: "How have you been?" In other words, I constantly had nothing new to report. Whenever I responded that I'd been "good", I meant it literally rather than as a polite non-answer.
2018 provided plenty of change in significant areas of my life so 2019 was certainly dull in comparison. And really in comparison to the whole previous decade of my life, which barely saw me doing the same thing for more than a year.
But I don't want to be ungrateful. If I pause to ponder the last 12 months a little more, I'm able to find a few highlights. They may seem simple, but they have nonetheless enriched my life and I am thankful for these little things.
It’s not your fault, Australia
The highest point in all of Australia sits at about the same altitude as the average for the whole…
An attempt at solitude
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