Today is 立春, lìchūn, the Beginning of Spring by the lunar calendar. Interestingly, the Spring Festival, AKA Chinese New Year, does not begin for another 12 days. It starts on February 16 this year, and traditionally lasts 15 days.

Nerdnote #34: on grief
written August 17, 2017

I've been thinking about grief lately, watching it unfold in one of my patients eerily mirroring my own experience, and wondering why nobody's written about the way it runs its course, like a fever or an injury.

I wish I had kept better records of my own process, ennumerate the things I wish I'd known.

What I do for sleep is as follows:​

​- Try to exercise daily, but not right before bed.

- Stop eating after 8pm.​

- Stop using screens after 8pm.

- Go camping.

- Be outside 10-15 minutes every day.

- Avoid caffeine.

- Cuddle my cat.