Welcome to the strange and exotic future year of 2025!
I hope everyone had a happy and restful winter holiday season. I did my best. I didn’t get as much time off as I might have liked but this is the first season since 2016 that I haven’t been hip deep into planning a major work conference, so it feels like I’m having a mini-vacation anyway. There’s something delightful about leaving my desk at 4:30 and not looking back.
This year, I’ll continue my tradition of swiping quotes from Rob Brezsny, my favorite horoscoptometrist, though perhaps not as often. I don’t like to repeat myself too much and he’s been in quite the tizzy since the election. While the outcome wasn’t optimal, I don’t see the point in doing the adversary’s work by setting my own hair on fire. You’ll have to catch me first.
Last week, RB shared a few words from Aquarian Virginia Woolf, who was legendary for her commitment to being authentic to herself and avoiding groupthink.
To inspire myself and you for the coming year, I share this quote from Mrs. Woolf:
“Movement and change are the essence of our being; rigidity is death; conformity is death: let us say what comes into our heads, repeat ourselves, contradict ourselves, fling out the wildest nonsense, and follow the most fantastic fancies without caring what the world does or thinks or says.”
I wish you that and all the best in the coming year.