Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.”
-Steve Jobs

Snow is in the forecast and I have hundreds of pounds of food to process. I’ve been knocking off deadlines for the past two weeks, focused and unavailable for much else. I am tired. But there is a strong sense of something else, casting the tone over everything else I am doing: JOY! I am truly joyful to meet my work.

Over the past couple of years, but the last year in particular, I have worked hard to create the life I…