Today is the beginning my fifty-seventh year on the planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is also Caroline\u2019s first day of her Senior year of High School and the first night of our bowling league the COVID-19 edition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So busy day all around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have been writing a letter to myself every year for over thirty years. Ten years ago, I started posting what I felt comfortable posting from the letter here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Dear Kathleen,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Well not the year you expected to live but it is the year that you lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I think I went back in time and told you all that had happened since your last birthday, you would have laughed at me for creating such a dystopian world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It has been a year of learning about yourself and the world around you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It has been a stressful year even before the pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And there is no end in sight which is very scary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You did manage to get your creative beast moving again. You created a new puppet form that is getting a lot of positive reviews. You wrote. You were published. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
You kept exercise up even with everything shut down. Your walks with Caroline have become very important to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You have found ways to keep your head above water. It wasn\u2019t easy but you did it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And you should be proud of all you did do during the shutdown.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now we step back and figure out what it next or what will be next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
There have been no conventions since February and no sign that we are going to be going back to them when they do start up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But we survive and do what we can as we have always done.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Within the next year I want you to use your website to promote and sell your work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I want to challenge you to create a couple of dolls and stuffed animals within the next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Keep exercising! It is working.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And remember to take some time for yourself. Even you need a break now and again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Love<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kath<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Today is the beginning my fifty-seventh year on the planet. It is also Caroline\u2019s first day of her Senior year of High School and the first night of our bowling league the COVID-19 edition. So busy day all around. I have been writing a letter to myself every year for over thirty years. Ten years […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7432"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7433,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7432\/revisions\/7433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kathwp.malibulist.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}