This morning I was milling around the house, stewing about some problems that have popped up recently, when I decided to read Sulelika Jaouad’s latest Isolation Journals installment. It is about shifting expectations, and how allowing all sorts of outcomes to be okay, from lowering them to hoping for the best, can foster the ways of being that help us live as fully as we can within the life experience we’re dealt. She writes about dealing with illness: “But I know I can’t hold off on living my ...