We Are Doing Enough

Margot Mellet and I are co-managing editors at Imaginations. We have both confessed a feeling of needing to do more in our work at the journal. In one of our regular Imaginations managing editor meetings, Margot uttered a truism that resonated: “We are doing enough.” This phrase made me laugh. It made Margot laugh. It hit a nerve in a good way. The sentiment draws on a kind of cognitive dissonance I have as an academic, as a colleague, as an editor: I think I’m not doing enough. To put it more precisely, I know I could be doing more and doing better with more attention, care, and time.