Letter to you | April 2024

Hi there, I hope this finds you well.

April was filled with a lot of tears. Good ones, not-so-good ones, and bad ones. I am trying to be more patient with myself and those I care about.

It was a month of blossoms. I loved seeing all the different flowers blooming. It's the time of the year to relearn how to distinguish peach blossom, cherry blossom, and plum blossom. I still can't tell them apart most of the time. But that's alright, I can still relearn when next Spring comes around. Maybe it will stick the next time?

I finished two books related to work: Work Won't Love You Back by Sarah Jaffe and The Good Enough Job by Simone Stolzoff. Both are great reads that make me rethink my relationship with work and how it tangles with my identity. One cited the Iceland 4-day workweek study, which made me love Iceland even more even though I still haven't visited. Cultivating and shaping my identity outside of what I do is a fantastic project. Luckily, I already have things that I like to do. I'm just consciously spending more time doing things I enjoy - how wonderful!

Oh, I saw the Solar eclipse! I didn't participate in the viewing in 2017. This time, we watched on our roof. We gave our neighbors and doorperson the extra glasses we got. The next solar eclipse is in 2044, which is twenty years away. Where would I be? I hope I've learned how to distinguish spring blossoms by then.

Yours truly :)