FRESH BEGINNINGS

Rekindling hope

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Thank you for your patience while I recover from the shenanigans of a disgruntled molar. Here is the promised New Year’s post.

As the year-end countdown for 2024 began, I listened and watched almost numbly to the usual lists touted on television and social media—Most Memorable Images of the year, Best Books, Must-See Movies, Most Influential News Stories—and so on. For some reason, none of it resonated with me or filled me with any sort of excitement for the year to come. 2025 didn’t feel at all sparkly and new. Any resolutions for it seemed doomed, so, why bother.

Honk

if you felt the same way…

I know this is not OK. Another year has passed, and artificial milestone or not, it is a milestone. And so, to shake myself free of this brain-fogged stupor tinged with dread, I decided to look back on the year of 2024 that …