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Assume that you have everything you need to live your life.
Would you continue doing (working at) what you do?
If not - what stops you from making that change right now?
If you would continue - what do you do?
This is the first issue of a new way of thinking about our newsletter. I wrote about it here. I hope you like and please do comment, email or even carrier pigeon - I want to start to bring together the collective wisdom of the people following People First and sharing it.
I may have posted this before but its worth repeating in partial answer to your question. This quote opens President Biden's book, "Promise Me, Dad":
Rules for Happiness: something to do,
someone to love, something to hope for.
- Immanuel Kant
I am fortunate in this regard, and I'll continue my work as currently constituted until my last breath - some time each week is spent supporting People First, which is its own reward; the rest of my week, I focus upon my writing - essays, stories, poems - which has been my passion/ obsession since I was 12 years old.
A finely wrought metaphor in poems and stories, one that reaches past our limits, is a gift given (for those that prefer evidence, listen to Amanda Gorman's inaugural performance).
This is my "something to do," rain or shine, love lost or being lost, in sickness or health, wherever and whenever we are. We write for those who love to read.
Your turn.
ARBEIT MACHT DAS LEBEN SUSS