On all sides, we are being asked to suspend truth, to take as gospel the “truth” of the loudest and most frequent speaker, to forget the truth, especially if it’s an inconvenient truth from the mists of history. And those mists are growing murkier.

Life always happens day in and day out, whether or not we feel like escaping. Designing, I told myself, was the opposite of escaping. In the context of escaping life, however, I see capturing my life as redesigning it, conjuring happy thoughts of new beginnings and changes we think might help make our lives work better.

I’ve had a love/hate relationship with power. Even the word felt uncomfortable. The thought of having it made me sprint in the opposite direction because I didn’t know how I would respond if I had a lot of power. In other words, if I had genuine power in my life, what would I do with it? I wasn’t sure, and that scared me enough to leave the subject alone for years.

There are many techniques to tackle my overwhelm issue, but this article is not about that either. My book, now finished and waiting for one last edit before continuing the formatting and printing processes, reminded me of something. How quickly I could forget that hopping from one hamster wheel to another is not progress.