That's a wrap, I suppose
And just like that, the year is gone
Full disclosure, I wrote this on Dec 31st, mostly, then I edited to make it look like I wrote it in 2025, then I let it age another week, just to ferment a little.
Happy new year, friends. I’m just getting still reflecting. I turned 37 when the clock hit midnight & the year flipped, cheersing and dancing around with friends and then a lil getaway with bae.
I’ve been looking back at the year, the other night after work I had SO MUCH FUN looking at photos and videos of the year gone by. I’ve been plucking out some themes, and I’ll share ‘em, too.
Home
Stability
Teaching yoga again after a few years away!
I actually didn’t love it. I was talking with a friend & coworker about it in the OR the other day and was able to put language to it- so much of what I do now that I’m in healthcare is SO verbal- lots of talking, lots of words, and teaching yoga is more of that. That’s why I am loving craniosacral- a whole different mode of listening and conversation with the body that’s totally nonverbal, it’s so cool and humbling. I actually just did get invited to teach again, and i think I have some ideas for how to make it fit with what’s exciting for me at the moment.
DUNE!!
I actually was disappointed in dune 2- I think a lot of the aesthetic ‘drops’ & surprises were already out of the bag for this iteration, and I felt the fremen anthropology aspect of the story was a little flattened. Still so fun tho.
I also hit a reading plateau. In the beginning of the year, spent several months with Mary Shelley’s apocalyptic novel The Last Man, which was a slow burn. For me!
Herbalism at Sacred Plant Traditions!!
Tea
Camellia sinensis is definitely my plant of the year. I started working with Tea more intentionally, sitting in ceremonial practice drinking tea, feeling feelings, and working with what is. It’s been very sweet.
Climbing the Clinical Ladder hoops nurses jump through to get a raise
Motherwort
2nd place for plant of the year. tincture, morning and night, from ovulation to start of bleed. I felt so supported!
ACLS certified! One of those things I have always seen other nurses as so badass for, this training is like advanced CPR, like, giving meds and stuff. I honestly pray to never ever use it.
Craniosacral therapy is the training I DO love to use. It’s the perfect blend-scientific specifics, advanced anatomy, and mystical woo- for a freak like me. Being in training was wild, going from coffee/lecture/note taking mode, to hopping up on the table for demos and hearing different little snores pop up all over the room.
Retreat the absolute honor of being in-person with a longtime mentor and a bunch of cool ass people & working with the earth and the body.
Cary Grant we watched so freaking many Cary Grant movies- tops is probably tied between Notorious and Philadelphia Story (a blues pianist from Mississipi recommended the latter at her show and she did not have to tell us twice.)
The macarena (chopped and screwed on the d floor-lmao, and the church of the Macarena- and the Mary statue & her outfits) (this theme did not appear until Q4)
Enneagram
Somatics & nervous system (perennially)
Creativity vs. consumption
Book of the year: We Will be Jaguars by Nemonte Nenquimo
2nd place was When I Sing, Mountains Dance by Irene Sola
Song of the Year: Bang by Milenas (the spotify numbers don’t lie) (ok everyone knows they do but not about this) (strong espanol theme with these first 3)
I don’t think I have a youtube video of the year but I give you Al Jarreau’s brilliant and inexplicable Roof Garden, which I keep saying is my New Year’s Resolution.
2nd place is I guess this tour of a Portland apartment turned ecovillage- I watched it a number of times and made several people watch it with me it’s cool & entertaining.
Okay that’s it see you in 2026! just kidding, see you soon.