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In 2025, I wanted to write a bit more poetry. It was also a year of long and frequent travels. Met new people, committed to new projects. It was a year of many directions.
This year, in 2026, I want to invest in a bit more intention to get coherence of all the stuff that I'm involved in. One of the ways of achieving this will be journaling about minor accomplishments and victories throughout the year and share it with you.
Nazim says on living:
Living is no laughing matter:
you must live with great seriousness
like a squirrel, for example—
I mean, without looking for something beyond and above living,
I mean living must be your whole life.
Living is no laughing matter:
you must take it seriously,
so much so and to such a degree
that, for example, your hands tied behind your back,
your back to the wall,
or else in a laboratory
in your white coat and safety glasses,
you can die for people—
even for people whose faces you’ve never seen,
even though you know living
is the most real, the most beautiful thing.
I mean, you must take living so seriously
that even at seventy, for example, you’ll plant olive trees—
and not for your children, either,
but because although you fear death you don’t believe it,
because living, I mean, weighs heavier.
I'd like to follow this advice. So whatever squirreling I happen to be involved in, I'll take the time to write a small note on it (the very first being me learning how to spell accomplishment).
