2021 — The Year of the Ready, Steady, Go?

Putting on the brakes.

It’s the last day of 2021 and here I am trying to make sense of it all. After claiming to have not been broken as part of last year’s reflection, this year I’m still standing but not exactly in a superman position (like Noah, my great nephew on the left). Still standing tall, but not about to take off and fly. Yet.

I tried to write monthly as the year passed, and looking back it seems quite a rollercoaster. Perhaps because certain things are so fresh, or because other things felt quite big, or perhaps with the backdrop of Covid nothing seems normal.

In any case, here was my year in short.

Q1 = No go

January. A new year. A better year. A getting back to some sort of normality year. I was optimistic and had put together some goals for the year. The month was fairly busy business wise thanks to a partnership with Tamara which would see us working in Nepal, Tanzania and Kenya, albeit on zoom, but at least I had some sort of escape after not escaping for Christmas.

February rolled around and I knew I could apply for my Croatian permanent residency, which also meant I could go to the bank for a mortgage. So I did. Unfortunately the way my work is divided made things a bit trickier, because the only income…