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I’ve been looking back to 2025, and wondering where the year went. It was such a pivotal year, and month by month, I wanted to review. Give myself a log of what happened:
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For the uninitiated, I love making a list of the things I’d like to accomplish. I post these lists, not necessarily to be perfect, but to give myself some guidelines to go off of. I take inspiration from Gretchen Rubin’s “Design Your Year,” which I enjoy pouring over at the beginning of each year.
So, here it is: some things I want to do in 2026:
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On a whim, in the last few days of 2024, I decided the best way to engage with my friends and build something that mattered to me was to host a monthly dinner party. I polled a group of 10 friends, all of whom were vaguely familiar with each other, some who were tight knit, others outliers, added them to a group chat, and posited the question:
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2025 has been such a growth based year for me. I accomplished a lot, but I also spent much of this year prioritizing what matters. I’ve been getting a lot of tarot and zodiac readings coming up on my social media, telling me that in a year of the snake, that I would be shedding a lot of things in my life, and that I would be letting go of some things that have needed to cycle out of my life. All of that said, here’s where I landed on my 25 for 2025:
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My family makes an annual pilgramage to Chicago, and I am always delighted to just exist in the city. Often, I’m left to wander and enjoy without having to anywhere to be, which is unusual for me. So join me, won’t you, for a highlights reel:
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On January 1st, I decided I was going to commit to myself. To my goals, my dreams, my aspirations. That I wanted to do something that mattered to me, and I was going to chase what I wanted to, no matter what anyone thought about it.
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Contemplation is one thing, my pride is another, to paraphrase. We can look back on our own lives, and see all the ways in which it splices, how every decision begets another decision, until you are where you are. I can tell you how I got here, but I’ve found myself daydreaming the “what if” as of late.
Continue reading “The Road Not Taken: A Contemplation”
I’m keeping myself busy for a lot of reasons. Maybe it’s because of the *everything* happening in the world, and I want to close in a little bit to the things I can control. Or maybe it’s because no matter the circumstance, I need to be doing as many things as possible.
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I started a sentence the other day, “When I was working for this labor union,” and the person I was speaking to stopped me.
“What do you mean, ‘when you worked for a labor union?'” For what it’s worth, the story had nothing to do with the union, it was a silly story about a coffee that used to be available at a local chain coffee shop. Regardless, the question got me thinking. Over the last 10 years, I’ve had 20 different jobs that I list on Linkedin, and another 15-20 random freelance things that I’ve done. What has this bredth of experience taught me?
Continue reading “Multifaceted Personhood: Experience and Growth”