For all mankind

Not going to lie, I am so ready for this to be over.

After this one today, I will have only four more posts to go and then it’s back to regularly scheduled programming. It’s not that I don’t like writing, I do, I really love it. But I’ve come to realize that I like writing most when I can take time with it. Without the time to be able to sit with an idea, I end up jib jabbering on very surface-level thing. I’d like to make space for some deeper reflection, which I am very excited to do once this is over. (I promise, this won’t be the last you’ll hear from me!)

I think one of the things that I’ve at least developed a muscle for over the last 25 days is that pressing publish is actually no big deal at all. Which, pre-whatever-this-exercise-is me would have had way too much anxiety over. Not new me.

Anyway, we just started Season 5 of For all Mankind which I’d very much like to get back to. The show explores an alternate history where the Soviet Union landed on the moon before the US and ends up down a fictional divergence from what actually happened. As things go, the world is not-so-different from today (i.e. we have all the same human problems) but in this version of history, we’re also on Mars. It’s great, deeply human, and I love it. In this alternate reality, John Lennon is still alive and as he always is, Al Gore is still never president. It has a similar - less sci-fi - premise as The Expanse, which is also a great show (we like sci-fi, can you tell?)

PLUS, a reminder that Father’s day is coming up on Sunday and I have successfully completed my gift-giving mission, phew.