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January Vibes, 2024 reflections, 2025 desires

January Vibes, 2024 reflections, 2025 desires

I approach January as a time for rest, reflection, and hibernation, aligning my actions with winter’s natural energy rather than cultural pressures for productivity. Reflecting on 2024, I am deeply satisfied with my home, relationships, and overall security. My journaling process also provided a good visual reminder of where I want to grow and see improvements, specifically in career, writing, and homesteading. As I look ahead to 2025, I am so appreciative for exactly where I am and committed to building resilience for the challenges and joys this year (and others) will bring.

The power goes out and the writing goes on

The power goes out and the writing goes on

Writing papers on weekends is not how I want to live my life at 49 years old, but this too shall pass.

The beating of my wild heart (aka: my feminism)

The beating of my wild heart (aka: my feminism)

My feminism is a desire to listen and live according to my wild human heart, mind, and body. What this actually looks like is ill-defined; it’s certainly not a program, plan, or anything I would prescribe for someone else. There is no pledge of allegiance in this “ism,” no flag or banner under which I march.

Finding Home ~ The conclusion

Finding Home ~ The conclusion

Then it all became rather obvious. We’re the adventurers and explorers, the migrators without property. We’ve built flexibility into our lives and our work. We would move to my parents. We’d sail the boat of our family life into the security of their port.

It all started with a move

It all started with a move

Analyzing my own migrations, to interrogate the source of the “where is home?” question I have been asking myself for nearly 25 years.

So a funny thing is happening to me in grad school

So a funny thing is happening to me in grad school

There’s been a longish season over the last few years of questioning my counter-cultural choices, everything from family finances to child raising. And then I decided to go to grad school.

The light at the end of the tunnel

The light at the end of the tunnel

Come hell or high water, come lockdowns and curfews, come transitions and discomfort, come mental health crises and loss of community, we were going to see our family through this difficult season.