I noticed this thing that happened over the weekend, on Saturday. I started thinking about what I needed to get done before Monday. Some weekends I was able to not give Monday too much power, and other weekends, I was far less successful.

Self-care is not a hamburger, it is not a to-do list of stuff, achieved or looked at in a factory assembly line fashion. As I work with coaching clients, I am not crafting it like a hamburger. I'm starting with the type of self-care that is about things like knowing that your life is fully in integrity.

In September, the very day that I decided that I would let go of teaching, the first symptoms hit of what I would now tentatively diagnose as an ulcer. I don't recall anyone talking about feeling as if they were getting an ulcer.

If I chose one metaphor for my life in the past year, it would be the snow globe. In general, everything has felt so shaken up, so topsy-turvy, but in a beautiful way (the kind of way where you might be tempted to shake it up again, just to watch it happen), and now the pieces seem to be slowly floating down into a slower space.