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2025 felt like 8 lifetimes.

It was a year of contradictions: so much love and so much heartbreak, joy tangled with grief, anger sitting with passion, and fear softened by community. It was the full spectrum of what it means to be human.

This year, I got married and I watched my mom leave the only home she had ever known because she was no longer safe here. I stepped into a woodworking internship, became a barista turned manager. I traveled through Europe, flew 17 flights, hugged people I love in different states and countries and left pieces of me with them. I got pregnant.

I laughed hard.
And I cried in ways I didn’t know I could.

I miscarried. I created community, fought for basic human rights, and helped build safe spaces for people who deserve the world. I wrestled every day with leaving the US or staying to fight for a safer future. I floated down Wisconsin rivers, tended to my garden, and felt the seasons in my tired and hopeful body.

I feared for my family.
And I was loved. Strongly, fiercely, gently.
And I loved with everything I had.

2025 was messy, painful, beautiful, and unbearably human.

In 2026 I’m calling in slowness and cuddles. More tea, more books, more crafts, more soft afternoons, more nights laughing until I cry, and a whole lot more community building! 

Thank you to everyone who walked with me through this lifetime of a year.
And a special shoutout to @_michi_leigh_ , who held the hardest parts with me and still brought so much light.

Here’s to a gentler year ahead. 🤍
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