Imagine you will completely lose your memory of 2024 in five minutes. Set an alarm for five minutes and capture the things you most want to remember about 2024.
2023 5 minutes, 2022 5 minutes, 2021 5 minutes, 2020 5 minutes, 2019 5 minutes, 2018 5 minutes, 2017 5 minutes, 2016 5 minutes, 2015 5 minutes, 2014 5 minutes, 2013 5 minutes, 2012 5 minutes, 2011 5 minutes, and 2010 5 minutes
Well what a year. You would think for most people that 2020 was that year, but 2024 was quite something else.
- When I was at lunch at the Ruby and saw the text from Chris that his mom passed away
- The call right in the middle of the meeting when I got the diagnosis
- The exhaustion I felt at Chiricahua National Monument when I started hallucinating buildings and cars, because I just wanted to get the nine miles done
- Running up to to the Chiricahua National Monuments visitor center to show that I hiked more than 5 miles just to get the pin!
- Going on the ranger hike at the Saguaro National Park and finding out that we’re the youngest (and we’re not that old) and found the 3 miles super easy compared to all the seniors who found it very difficult
- Sitting in the exam room with my parents and Chris
- Calling my parents and my sister after the diagnosis
- Walking into Chris’ mom’s house aka his childhood home while biohazard was cleaning up
- Seeing Chris’ childhood bedroom for the first time upending all the imagined visions of it before
- Climbing Mt. Storm King and seeing the birds land on Chris’ fingers, but not mine!
- Going on that (boring?) mine tour in Arizona
- Doing the night ghost tour in Bisbee but getting…bored?
- Catching a Hawlucha on Pokemon Go!
- Reading at APAture, despite it being a 13 minute piece
- Reading at Lit Night
- Writing up my odyssey document
- Telling my manager about an impending medical leave
- Getting pulled over on our way to Second Beach but getting just a warning because maybe it was Chris’ birthday?
- Attending Litfest at Lighthouse where Chris cooked breakfast for everyone!
- Walking around Rocky Mountain National Park hikes, getting admonished for coming late, and running into Chris’ coworkers
- Attending Reyes the Pen in Point Reyes and learning about all the animals!