I can’t keep up. It’s not just me though, is it? All this technology that was supposed to make our lives easier and more fun, well, it’s a lot of work.
The Washington Post reported this week that 65% of Gen Z describe themselves as video content creators. I almost put that description in quotation marks, but that would only date me. Air quotes for something that feels made up but instead is very real.
Granted, Gen Z is ages 14 to 24, but I can’t help feeling the tech enthusiasm has captured every generation. Before I launch into a lament, however, let me share a few newsletters I read recently, which speak very succinctly to home.
This one really resonated. Things are never the same, except that in some way they are. I continue to really enjoy everything Emergency Contacts is sharing.
This is a very interesting analogy worth considering. If friendships aren’t equal or reciprocal - any relationship, for that matter - then, well, they’re not the same as “being home”.
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And finally, some of you may already be familiar with Sharon Blackie. Our fields of study (myth, story, the hero’s journey, home) are very closely aligned. While I wasn’t aware of her when I was in grad school, I’m not surprised to learn she now teaches at my old school. In the following post, she talks about what it means to feel safe at home, a safety that requires a sense of belonging, and how difficult that can be to find.
These are great newsletters that I hope you will consider subscribing to, if you have the time to read more newsletters, that is.
I understand that to keep you, my readers, more engaged, I probably need to be offering more varied content. Videos, Notes, Threads, Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook, even Tiktok. I hope you’ll forgive me for my inability to do so. It’s all a bit too overwhelming for me. Too much technology, too many platforms. Too many passwords and too many security breaches. If I had the luxury of only doing this, maybe I could keep up, maybe.
But I will keep sharing my thoughts on home, as well as the thoughts of others, to the best of my ability. Thank you for being here.
Warmly, Jan
"I hope that this somehow helps all of us, myself included, consider all the wrongs we could right, with friends we had wronged, when we killed things that understand them. "
I will think about this line for a long time.
Thanks for sharing us alongside such wonderful posts! Def reflecting on the notion of reciprocal relationships and how we can show up better for one another. (Sometimes you're the orca, and sometimes you're the trainer 😬)