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Hi again, It’s hard to believe that a month has passed since I last wrote. Time seems to be bending in new ways. Maybe my calendar is broken. I’ve been thinking a lot about transitions. I turned 49 last July, and feel like there’s something about rounding that corner to the “big five-o” that is shifting my focus in a new way. Maybe it has something to do with this stupid pandemic. Or maybe it has something to do with spending 25+ years honing one craft, and achieving some success, but still feeling that something is missing. It’s an unfamiliar feeling that’s hard for me to verbalize, even though I think about it a lot. Kate sent me this piece by David Brooks that provides one possible explanation for this feeling. Brooks writes that the first act of our lives is about “building up the ego and defining the self” while our second act is about “shedding the ego and dissolving the self.” But between those two high points is a deep valley in which we’re transformed. This idea of a well-lived life having a first mountain -> deep valley -> second mountain shape is one that makes sense to me. So I hope all of you are well — whether you’re standing on the peak, or down in the valley. JK
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