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[a year in review] 2020 edition, part 1

Recently, I posted this to Instagram; it’ll be a launchpad for an exploration I’ve been circling for a while now: Exactly one year ago today we took a trip to Europe. ✈️ We’d spend a brief weekend visiting with friends in Munich & take a train up to Gdańsk, Poland for a week . . . 🥀 We didn’t anticipate what would be taking place in northern Italy while we were off in Poland, so with big question marks in our minds we boarded our planes to Florence, just in time for the nationwide lockdown. 😷 It was one of the…

what reinvention means to me (i.e., refueling my purpose)

Confession: I started writing this post today originally with a completely different intention. I’m familiar with the practice of letting my words carry me somewhere I never thought I’d go in the moment — welcome to writing and the art of conversation — so I surrendered to it. I promise this post has a point, so please be patient and let it unfold. After my junior year in Florence, I decided to change my major to Italian (that way, the culture classes I’d taken wouldn’t have been for nothing — this was an attempt to speed my degree along…