Hey, friend!

It's weird to continue on with life as usual when it is definitively not usual.

We're selling our house and buying another. I'm doing all my usual work at Tighten with joy and excitement for the future. The kids are starting up soccer for the second half of the year. We're planning their future schooling, vacations, and other plans for this year and years from now.

But, in a way that's never been the case since I've been alive, that future is very unsure. Department of Education abolished and DEI banned? How does that impact my Black kids and their schooling? Pending wars and economic recessions? How does that affect my company, my friends and family, my ability to pay our mortgage?

The answer to these questions, and so many more, just keeps coming up the same: I don't know. And no one else does, either. So we just keep living life, because the alternative isn't an option.

Sometimes it feels like I'm just sticking my head in the sand like an ostrich. But I've seen more and more folks quoting how people in the past have had to respond to living under authoritarian regimes, how they've dealt with facism and dysfunctional governments... and it seems like there always ends up being a nugget of "Just live." Just survive. Just seek out quality time with your family and joy where it is and respond to each moment the best you can.

So that's what we're doing. If there's something I know is coming, I'll prepare for it. Yah, I'll probably save a bit more money in the next months than normal. I'll probably guide my decisions around a potential recession. But so many other things just leave me with no action to take... so I won't. I'll just keep living.

What Else?