Best year of my life

Best year of my life - 2020

It has been a wonderful few weeks at home reflecting on 2020 and all the opportunities and experiences it brought. Last year started in Aarhus with a fortnight of Danish immersion, some of which was spent with my delightful daughter and some studying governance structures of the European Union. While the pneumonia wasn't fun, finding out I needed a little medical intervention with my heart would not happened if I hadn't become so ill in Aarhus. Life just works out. COVID meant I got to spend a lot of time with my Dad in 2020 - heading to Brisbane most weeks for a few nights and sharing the good, the bad and the downright unattractive with him and, along with a range of supports, enabling to live at home independently until a day or two before he died. Didn't quite make his 85th birthday on Christmas Day but we had a lot of time together that would not have happened that way in a non-COVID world. For me, I got the bonus of shedding much that was obligation and unnecessary or unhealthy investment for the things that matter in my life. Turned out there isn't that much that really matters and keeping intrusions at bay takes less and less energy. My tribe is my tribe and I value them more as life unfurls. Quite the bonus for me in 2020. Looking forward to all that 2021 brings, and for the opportunities a life of uncertainty brings in the absence of medium or long term plans. My your year be as safe and hopeful as it can be.

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