Reflections on 2024
Week notes? More like weak notes, amirite?! Sorry, it’s been a while…
A lot has happened in the intervening weeks since my last, so here’s an effort to draw some of those dangling threads together. There is more to say about the future, but I will leave that for the New Year.
This is going to be a bit of a stream of consciousness to get some stuff out of my system.
2024. An odd year. One of monotony, Groundhog Day-like repeating patterns that chipped away at parts of me with every turn. My recognition that things have to change, in some way, to break the loop and trigger emergence of new opportunities and frontiers. A year of big decisions and commitments, to growing up; playing the games of the existing system whilst trying to navigate something… different…
It’s a year of new words and changing language. Replacing problems with predicaments, capitalism with collapse, confronting the fact that to encourage change means letting go of the normal, and preparing for loss in some form.
A year of asking questions as points of exploration:
Why don’t we practise what we preach?
How do we live and dance between the systems that push, pull, crash, stretch and create moments of light?
How do we prepare?
Connection and community are the guiding lights for me this year. It was the slowing down, creating multiple moments to meet new people in new spaces. I am grateful to family (my guides, supporters and heart), friends and Forum (a special note to Forum for reinforcing the point to talk about experiences from the I not the you and the immutability of my experience and feelings about situations).
It was the year to stop being defined by the job role and instead recognise that I am driven by a deeper devotion to a problem: the multi-year exploration about how and why people come together to do what they do?
Getting experimental was a critical realisation, to work with others to get uncomfortable and try new things, to improvise, to think out loud, to fail.
How this sweeps into 2025 is in the form of a set of… dare I say?… resolutions.
To grow, to build, to sow, to commune.