My wife, son and I got closer to each other. I had several deep conversations about god, love, emotions, good and bad, etc. with our 10 year old. We saved money.
This is just off the top of my head. I’m sure there’s more. I’m grateful that we were privileged/lucky to survive the pandemic without getting the virus. On Tue, Nov 2, 2021 at 10:37 PM Alaric Snell-Pym via Silklist < [email protected]> wrote: > On 02/11/2021 02:22, Udhay Shankar N via Silklist wrote: > > I have a question for the collective. > > > > With so much not going well with the world, at almost all levels of > > abstraction, what are the things that are still great? In fact, what are > > the things about your own life that have improved over the past two > years? > > I'm really glad about how my children are developing as people. I won't > bore you with all the doting-parent stuff, but our eldest has always > been really interested in, and good at, understanding people; she's the > go-to therapist for all her friends with troubles, and she's just > started her A levels where she's getting to study psychology and > sociology (and maths) - and she's loving getting to study these things > she's been thinking about informally for all these years! > > And our younger child is ten now, and starting to mature and develop as > a person. She's always been very immature, a stark contrast to her > sister; barely able to reason beyond her immediate desires (for > instance, happily committing to never ever play on the computer ever > again if she can just play on it for half an hour extra this one time) - > but over the past year or two she's started to actually open her > metaphorical eyes and look at the world around her, beyond the next ten > seconds! Suddenly she's turning into an interesting and observant human > being :-D > > Other than that, I've been learning things again. I love learning stuff, > but for a couple of decades I'd been a bit stuck finding new things to > learn. However, I finally broke the back of a topic I'd long been > mystified by - analogue electronics - finally getting a good enough > understanding of the core of it that I can start learning lots and lots > of details. Since then I've built an analogue audio mixer, and am well > into designing a dual-input (solar+grid) smart battery management system > that will manage power in my workshop when it's done. Lots of fun! > > -- > Alaric Snell-Pym (M0KTN neé M7KIT) > http://www.snell-pym.org.uk/alaric/ > _______________________________________________ > Silklist mailing list -- [email protected] > Manage your membership here: > https://lists.digeratus.in/postorius/lists/silklist.lists.digeratus.in/ -- *Get your 'vaccine' from 'fake news', lies, half-truths, manipulated truths, propaganda and general B.S. at my media buddhi newsletter <https://mediabuddhi.substack.com/>.* H R Venkatesh Director, Training and Research, BOOM <https://www.boomlive.in/> John S. Knight Journalism Fellow 2019 <https://jsk.stanford.edu/fellows/class-of-2019/h-r-venkatesh/>, Stanford University Twitter: @hrvenkatesh
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