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2021: Creating a Lexicon of Future
F is for Faith
I experienced a deep loss of faith in 2018. I had just sold my house and had plenty of money, but, as someone who’s never measured my worth by material goods, it didn’t bring me any joy. Compounded by the realization that selling the house ended an important chapter in my life as it was where Keith and I lived, and he had died, I was adrift.
2018 marked 20 years of envisioning and incubating solutions for a world that still didn’t see the problems. Although I now had the financial means to bring some of those concepts forward, nothing actually landed because the world still wasn’t ready to receive them. I was spiritually exhausted and felt like the last 2 decades of work had been pointless, especially since I didn’t have the right partners to bring it forward.
Bottom line: I lost my faith. Not in the ideas, their value or the core message, but in my role as the messenger. Honestly, I didn’t think I would make it through that year.
I spent my financial capital supporting the concepts of others — some of whom are no longer with us — but couldn’t do the same for myself. 2019 was also tough, but my faith was on the upswing and, finally, in 2020 it felt like I had the momentum to continue the work. All it took was a global pandemic forcing the world to see what I’d seen for years, changing their…
