Happy Halloween! I hope you are staying safe and enjoying the suspension of disbelief for a little while! I am in a coffee shop in Bowery dressed as Princess Mononoke, the titular character from Miyazaki’s 1997 film, Princess Mononoke. No one really gets this costume. hahaha
October has flown by and has felt like a breath of fresh air. I can’t pretend like the cold breezes and darker days don’t get to me, but the Fall weather has been mostly great thus far. And something about the sunlight on colder days makes one feel so alive.
I titled this month’s blog “Forecasting” because it seems like the time of year where we suddenly become aware of where we stand. This can encapsulate academic calendars, careers, love lives, friendships, and anything that takes time. I guess most all things take time. It’s tempting to put things on timelines because that’s how we operate; we want to know. But it’s also a good time to just let things be.
I hope you take some time to resist the urge to forecast everything. I know I want to. Things that are supposed to happen will surely happen. And the rest will evade history. Or something.
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