Two big things:<\/p>\n
1) I am getting married exactly ONE MONTH from today.<\/p>\n
2) I am releasing the second issue of Wide Open Games next Tuesday.<\/p>\n
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These are both amazing and exciting and big signs of growth in my life. I\u2019m feeling proud and strong about them. And it\u2019s also the easiest thing in the world to feel completely overwhelmed by either of them!<\/p>\n
For the wedding, we are definitely in the thick of planning. We\u2019re in really good shape, but we\u2019ve still got a healthy to-do list that needs some management. Ignoring it just leads to stress and mess in my relationship with T when we\u2019re trying to focus on coming together and feeling connected as best we can before we stand under the chuppah. So the emails and decisions and details definitely need attention.<\/p>\n
Then there\u2019s all that goes into Wide Open Games. I sometimes feel like I need to be three people at the same time: someone to write the words and make the games, someone to build the website and handle the business back-end, and someone to email press outlets and tweet and post to Facebook (and Instagram, and tumblr, and Pinterest, and\u2026)\u00a0I\u2019m learning how to balance and manage my time between these tasks, and proud that I\u2019m still on track and planning to release my second issue (The Imperfection Issue) this coming Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Yesterday I had a good talk with a friend who reminded me to let those two things be enough. Whatever I\u2019m doing in those areas, let it be enough. Don\u2019t make any big changes. Of course, there is a whole universe outside of these two areas of my singular life, and a lot I want to do in that universe! But for me, for right now, I have to be OK with a little paring down.<\/p>\n
Right now, these two things are what\u2019s going on with me.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m not at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. I\u2019m not changing the total concept of Wide Open Games. I\u2019m not starting a backyard chavurah minyan. I\u2019m not going to volunteer training for community organizing. I\u2019m not deciding where or when to move. I\u2019m not tweeting or posting daily updates on Instagram.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m making my wedding, my website, and my games. And that\u2019s enough. Dayenu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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