resolutions for celebration

One of the resolutions I've been working on in recent years is to celebrate more. Emphasis on the active part of celebration—because I'm good about noticing, savoring, feeling joy and pleasure. Those are woven into my everyday.

But I'm much weaker about making space and bringing more energy into those moments. And I'd like to better at it. Because living in all the the violence of late stage capitalism, bearing witness to all its destruction, is intense. I need to find ways to be more present to my pleasure and my joy. I need to celebrate.

Mind you, I want to celebrate without bypassing. There are loads of examples of people and spaces where it's all fun and love and laughs and whatever, with no mention and no capacity for beaing witness to the world.

You do you, but those spaces don't do much for me.

So, my resolution is to be in all of it, celebrating and bearing witness and laughing and crying and grieving and reveling.
Which is why I'm (finally) having a book release party for Still Moving. Online, so anyone can join.
(There won't be a hard sales pitch, because that's not celebratory for me at all.)

Much more on my mind is one of the main reasons I wrote Still Moving — that I think most people, including many professionals like therapists and coaches, miss one of the fundamental considerations about illness, loss, and grief.

You can come for the celebration, or the sick talk, or the joy talk, or the grief talk, or my thoughts on creative process, or the many ways I wove magic into all the elements of this book. I'm looking forward to sharing! And of course answering any questions.

Happening on Tuesday, October 22nd at 7:30pm, so please save the date. I'll send the link soon.

Also, if you have any suggestions for giveaways or anything like that, I'd love to know. (I'm still working on something like that.)

In celebration,
S.

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she / they

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