on witnessing each other - by jenn xia (she/her)
Happy new year! All the clichés are true — time really does just move faster when you get older (I say at 23). I know not everyone loves setting goals but god do I love a structured pinpoint to look back and pause for a second to see how I want to make my next step. So many big dreams are conjured here, and that feels special. A lot has happened this past year, more than I realized until I scrolled back through my camera roll. I hit my one year anniversary at my first job postgrad, with climbing and with my sweet H. I traveled to Italy, Houston, Chicago, and Seattle. I tried therapy again. I got bed bugs. I moved apartments. I got into coffee. I felt anxious (both caffeine and internally induced). I felt loved. I felt apathetic. I felt a lot of shame. And I felt joy in connecting back to myself and others. I don’t have a clear direction or voice with this newsletter but I thought I would share a few of my hopes for this upcoming year (the year of the dragon, my year!) and I hope some o
Happy new year! All the clichés are true — time really does just move faster when you get older (I say at 23). I know not everyone loves setting goals but god do I love a structured pinpoint to look back and pause for a second to see how I want to make my next step. So many big dreams are conjured here, and that feels special. A lot has happened this past year, more than I realized until I scrolled back through my camera roll. I hit my one year anniversary at my first job postgrad, with climbing and with my sweet H. I traveled to Italy, Houston, Chicago, and Seattle. I tried therapy again.…
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