It’s a powerful tool for healing, giving yourself things to look forward to. This isn’t new, nor mine alone, but I did come to discover it like many of us do — by instinct rather than by being taught.
Often those things are new experiences, or travel, which are a largely overlapping Venn diagram. Sometimes they’re familiar or favorite things, or accomplishing a hard-won goal.
For those of us who are feeling the weight of grimness following the results of the election, and in general because life is hard and a new year is on the horizon, let’s employ this tool as a means for looking forward to what’s to come, in our lives and communities, if we cannot for the political landscape.