Shifting gears
Haven't posted in a while, been busy - been a good year and a bad year, everything going on politically and environmentally aside. Traveled a lot, lost my kitty and my grandma, have a new kitty now, very settled in our living situation, making new friends, preparing to bid farewell to DINK in two years... Still doing my various projects, violin is coming along, cooking some new things, almost met my reading goal for the year - one more book. I'm kind of cheating, it's a graphic novel, but I know I can finish it before the end of the year. Finished Trevor Noah's book for my work group book club, and it made me think about writing down memories more. The times I have written down my memories, I end up remembering them so much more. Various studies have shown that snapping lots of photos ends up reducing your memory of an experience, so all the more reason to start documenting and thinking about things more, rather than whipping through one moment to the next. My