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2022 reflections: How my creative soul came alive again

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Dec 23, 2022
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Medea’s rage is my rage towards corporate-owned Internet spaces. Medea, 1868. Artist: Frederick Sandys. Birmingham Museums Trust

There are some days when I find the blank page very hard to overcome. So I open Otter.ai and start talking. For some reason, this helps get things going. Sometimes, I marvel at how fast I write with Otter!

Anyway, it’s that time of the year when I traditionally reflect on the life that I’ve had for the last 12 months. But blame it on my Tiger Parenting upbringing, but a part of me does not want to list out the good things that happened in 2022 lest I jinx 2023. But let me try to do it without alarming Lady Luck.

Despite the threat of nuclear annihilation thanks to Uncle Putin, compared to the years before, 2022 was a marvelous one for me.

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