I will not be afraid. I truly have not been afraid over the past two years, but this commitment extends to avoiding fearful people. That means continuing my almost-100% moratorium on watching 24-7 news. That means suspending my Twitter account. That means not letting other peoples\u2019 fear put a cloud over my day. That means not trying to talk others out of their fear, and (more importantly) not allowing anyone to project their fear onto me.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nIt\u2019s not as if there are no wonderful things in my life. There are many of them, starting with Jeanne and our Corgi puppy Bovina who joined us in late October. Justin, Caleb, and Alisha. Teaching, especially when it is in person. Our first cruise (as long as they let us off the ship). But the last year has made me hyper-aware of the things that rob me of my joy, happiness, and general peace. To the extent that it is in my control, I will be engaging with those things as little as possible in 2022. I definitely will not be deliberately putting myself in their way.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Although today is the next-to-last day of 2021, I am writing ten days earlier on December 20. That\u2019s because today Jeanne and I are returning from Tampa after a five-day cruise to Cozumel and other points of interest on the east coast of Mexico. Since even I am not likely to spend much time on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2938,"featured_media":25448,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,946,36,39,47,48,56,71,94,99],"tags":[222,233,269,287,762,463,478],"class_list":["post-25439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-change","category-covid-19","category-family","category-friends","category-hope","category-human-nature","category-jeanne","category-peace","category-teaching","category-travel","tag-family","tag-friends","tag-human-nature","tag-jeanne","tag-new-year","tag-teaching","tag-travel"],"yoast_head":"\n
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