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My people! Hello!

2025 has been a ride and, here we are. Five days until, well, another year and one that I don’t expect to be too different from the last in its unpredictability. It’s raining (I wish it were snow but am grateful for the moisture), the Christmas lights are twinkling though a few bulbs are out, and the house smells like eucalyptus. All in all, it’s quite lovely right here, right now.

This year has been a wild one in all the good and bad ways I could only imagine one year ago. On the personal, the micro, it has been filled with work, friends, protests, and trips while, on the macro, the horrors just don’t let up. I spent my winter and spring furious at the cruelty so many voted for and seemed ok with until, eventually, I wore myself out and realized there must be another way. Initially I allowed my energy and my attention to be hijacked and only in the late spring did I realize that was the point, to exhaust me/us into complacency.

Instead of reacting to our government, the billionaires, the tech bros, corporations, and dumb, scared people’s intentional cruelty over and over, I eventually saw that I actually did have a few choices in the matter. I turned off all notifications, upped my donations to multiple amazing organizations, listened to astrologers compare our current times to ones in the past, attended every protest I could, made things with my hands, payed off debt, and boycotted the businesses that pissed me off in even the slightest way. I bought less and ended up feeling like I had more.

And now, 2026! Oh boy. I think 2025 gave us a warm up of what crazy feels like but also know there are things that we can’t foresee or imagine yet. Astrologically we are in it for several more years and though I didn’t think I was waiting for someone to save us a year ago, I now know with my soul that we are the ones we have been waiting for. No one is coming. And that’s ok! We’ve got this.

What do you want to bring to 2026? What did you learn and what do you want to leave behind? Who were you on December 31, 2024, and who are you now?

I have a renewed sense of faith in humanity and humans which feels kind of crazy to say after the atrocities and stupidity on display all over the world, but I really do feel like we are the strangest, most creative species and that we aren’t going to let the robots or the autocrats win without a fight. I have seen too many good, kind people doing amazing things this year to give up on us and I plan to keep that truth at the forefront of my new year.

Creativity > Consumption

Humanity > Robots

Imagination > Hallucinations

Action > Worry

Reading > Scrolling

Love > Fear

Wishing you and yours a joyful and peaceful 2026!

Avec Amour