Another year

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Today marks the start of another year in my life. As is my tradition, I’ve added another birthday picture.

I don’t have any great pearls of wisdom from reflecting on mortality or how to keep feeling young despite being well into middle-aged by any reasonable definition of the word.

Even though the past year has been one of growing stability and finally starting to feel truly at home in Amsterdam, things have taken a liminal turn. I’m starting a master’s degree program in Buddhist Studies, which has long been a dream of mine. It’s hard to say this will have any practical value, but the chance for intellectual exploration and curiosity within the strictures of academia is something I didn’t want to pass up.

More importantly, my wife and I have a little one on the way. Thus I’m hoping to have my quiet and peaceful life upended in the most wonderful sort of way.

And here’s to another great year!