Imbolc Hare Moon
In that slightly down place that completing a course produces. Yes, it feels great to have stuck with it, finished. And, yes, it feels very good to have the new knowledge. But there’s now a hole where the climate change course was. This is not the same feeling I had when ModPo and the Modern/Post-Modern courses finished. That was more like exhilaration.
This one mattered to me. I’m not sure where or what I’ll do next. There are books to read, several recommended by the professors. There’s the America Votes work and the possibility of using Great Wheel as some kind of vehicle to further mitigation and adaptation in Minnesota. But right now I feel deflated, a bit overwhelmed by the magnitude of the task that lies ahead for all of us. This will pass. But it’s there.
Since I finished earlier than I imagined, I’ll be able to work on my query letters tomorrow. I am also starting a new course focused on personal change that I don’t expect to be as demanding as this course was. I let Whitman slide, did basically nothing and that’s the first one I’ve done that with, but I had overextended myself and something had to give.