Like a lot of people, I began a blog on another platform in the wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the website Medium. The thrust of the Medium work was really about staying positive by praising people, places, and things for just being.
Gratitude.
I first praised my college classmate, the poet Elizabeth Alexander, for creating such a simple concept at Barack Obama's first Presidential Inauguration, where she celebrated everyday things and people worthy of gratitude. Next, I started praising little-known actors, likeĀ the 1980s Shakespearean actor Fran Bennett, or even praise concepts, like mentors who matter, "True North" concepts, people, or momentous moments that shape our lives.
There are so many different parts of the things that we do and even ourselves that we sometimes abandon or leave behind. Occasionally, we return to them (I plan to return to Medium now that I am in more of a generative mode), and finally finish a novel I began reading back in the early 1990s that became a cult classic -- The Confederacy of Dunces, because a friend of my brother Micahel is directing a movie based on the author's relationship with his mother. These things we get back to or re-start may be due to so many people raving about it, or perhaps we will finally finish that home improvement project, like deciding to complete the siding project on the house we began months or years ago as one of my past colleagues did. and don't think about it for a while.
What is one thing that you want to reclaim or get back to? What might you begin again, but this time with a plan, making it more achievable because you told someone about it?
For those of you who would love to see what's happening on Medium, click the linkĀ HERE. I will also update this blog in the coming weeks and months, once again telling you what I am grateful for and things that we could be looking out for ourselves.
Curated listening:
What would starting again be without the Beatlesās āGet Back (to Where You Once Belong),ā Listen to it HERE.