It's been a year - yikes!
Dunno how I would recap the year, so won't really try.
Shocked to discover how shocked I am that I haven't been back here in a year. Somehow it was feeling like 'a few months'. I guess that's another example of how much time flies when I'm this old.
Residency ended on September 1, and by September 15 I was missing the hospital, feeling emotionally like I wish I'd never left. Except, of course, that there was no job opening to step into, and the new crop of Residents was ready to start. My work group became wonderfully close by the end, but have now scattered. One's in Texas, one's moving to California shortly, one has ramped up participation in a number of less chaplain-y pursuits while marking time in the process, one is moving ahead to doing neighborhood chaplaincy. And then me, taking time off and reflecting on what I really do want to do next.
And then getting knocked rather far off balance by the election and its assorted sequellae. Just starting to get back to serious work now.
Joined NaNoWriMo for the first time in several years, and this time I'm doing well; behind the goal, but past the halfway mark, with only a few skipped days and several above 2000 words. Now, if this were really looking like a novel, I'd be thrilled. But it looks like I'm going to have a whole collection of scenes, and some characterization of one character that properly belongs to a different one, and so on. But it's being lovely to have the discipline of 'write something every day' and make it count.
I've taken Gundersen's training in Advance Care Planning and am starting to set up 'practice' appointments with friends who are willing to be walked through the topic of discovering what we want, and who we want to make decisions, if it eventually becomes a situation where we can't. With enough practice, I can see myself getting good at this, but sure am not there yet.
I've planned a bunch of travel for the coming year, recognizing that at some point it will become impossible.
And that's probably all I can say today. For now, I want to go read the rest of my LJ roster.
Shocked to discover how shocked I am that I haven't been back here in a year. Somehow it was feeling like 'a few months'. I guess that's another example of how much time flies when I'm this old.
Residency ended on September 1, and by September 15 I was missing the hospital, feeling emotionally like I wish I'd never left. Except, of course, that there was no job opening to step into, and the new crop of Residents was ready to start. My work group became wonderfully close by the end, but have now scattered. One's in Texas, one's moving to California shortly, one has ramped up participation in a number of less chaplain-y pursuits while marking time in the process, one is moving ahead to doing neighborhood chaplaincy. And then me, taking time off and reflecting on what I really do want to do next.
And then getting knocked rather far off balance by the election and its assorted sequellae. Just starting to get back to serious work now.
Joined NaNoWriMo for the first time in several years, and this time I'm doing well; behind the goal, but past the halfway mark, with only a few skipped days and several above 2000 words. Now, if this were really looking like a novel, I'd be thrilled. But it looks like I'm going to have a whole collection of scenes, and some characterization of one character that properly belongs to a different one, and so on. But it's being lovely to have the discipline of 'write something every day' and make it count.
I've taken Gundersen's training in Advance Care Planning and am starting to set up 'practice' appointments with friends who are willing to be walked through the topic of discovering what we want, and who we want to make decisions, if it eventually becomes a situation where we can't. With enough practice, I can see myself getting good at this, but sure am not there yet.
I've planned a bunch of travel for the coming year, recognizing that at some point it will become impossible.
And that's probably all I can say today. For now, I want to go read the rest of my LJ roster.