 This 2nd quarter has been expectedly different from normal. The middle month of Q2 (May) was my due date for son #4, which means the first month of the quarter was the stressful lead up to labor (April) and the final month of the quarter (June) had the sleep-deprived weeks of life with a newborn. With these unmovable realities of my quarter, I knew this season would be different.
 I write this on the day of my 39th birthday. I carved out a few precious child-free hours to post up with my laptop at a favorite local place to write. I woke early this morning (3am to be exact, I am nursing my youngest) and in the dark morning hours wondered how I was looking down the last year of my 30s. While my 40th birthday seems the time to reflect on the decade past and dream about the decade forward, for some reason I feel like doing it this year. In a world that feels increasingly negative or scary, I don’t want to wait to dream of beautiful things. Perhaps this reflection will be something to think about all year long. Perhaps I will now have time to modify and think deeper on these goals. Perhaps when I reach my 40th birthday, I will have a whole year’s worth of clarity to launch with more purpose than ever before. We'll see. So here is a bit of a life reflection and some bucket list items I think I would like to go after in my 4th decade.
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AuthorDr. Kathryn Grow Allen ('Katie'): Anthropologist, Archaeologist, Writer, Researcher, Teacher, Consultant, Yoga Lover, Nature Enthusiast, Book Worm, and Mother of Four. Archives
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