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IT’S 2026 HERE, HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 💥
🕑 Added 2025-12-31 11:56:26 +0000 UTCWe got it first!!!!!!
To all of you, so much love and so many heartfelt wishes from 2026!!
We just rang it in here in Aotearoa New Zealand; it’s nearly 1am and I’m heading to bed, but first….
I hope this turning of the year gives you some new spark inside, some hopeful sense of quiet relief in the changing of the moment. If nothing else, I hope you get to just…let some things go.
A ritual can help. Even if you’re alone at home. A small thought, a wish or a nightmare, written on a scrap of newspaper, held over a flame. I like to write down names of things and places and people I need to let go of.
Anything. Any offering to set the new year into place.
I played some ukulele with the locals at a Hogmanay party….
Was offered some haggis but could only stomach a photo (no pun intended)….
Then we scrambled home and the kids and adults wrote down the wishes and nightmares of 2025 and Ash and his friend did the honors and burned them in a bowl at a minute to midnight.
Then midnight came, the kids screamed and I felt old and thoughtful.
I don’t scream anymore.
I’m all screamed out.
For now.
The wishes and nightmares are all gone now, to the sky, and we will throw the cremated remains in the sea tomorrow and say a final goodbye.
And to 2025?
I can’t hate you, any more than I can hate anyone or anything.
But I can say this to you, dear 2025.
I survived the ever-living FUCK out of you.
And for that?
I am truly grateful.
You can’t burn ash.
See you all next year.
I love you.
Xxx
A
Comments
Carell Casey
Happy New Year
Skippy Sund
Happy New Year Everyone!!!!!
Coila
I love when you say "you can't burn ash." In my mind, it will always mean both that you can't burn what is all burned up AND that you won't allow them to get Anthony. And I love you for both of those things.
Shawn Rourke
Happy NEW YEAR Ms. Palmer. I hope you have a a great one!
alberth
I’m turning my back on this 2025 with its awfulness and small moments of greatness and offering my 2026 prayer. Dear god, please get all your fallen people to pull their heads out of their butts and give a fuck about someone besides themselves. Amen.
Carell Casey
Happy New Year! 12.5 hours from New Year in Nashville, TN. Best I can say is a managed to survive 2025 as well. I hope for a 2026 that sees the world's democracies taking all the new fresh hells of cyber crime seriously!
Patti C
Wishing all of you a year of insight and delight wherever this may find you. Yes it may be a ride through hellfire like 2025 was, but I’m betting you also found time for exploration and awe. I’d like to recommend everyone read Lynda Barry’s comic “What’s in a museum?”in MOMA magazine. This group seems the right readers for it - all about the ways art can transport you, transcend time and place. How important that first introduction to art is. HTTPS://moma.org/magazine/articles/1391
Lorelei Rivers
I did my burn on Solstice, and wow, I had a lot to burn. It's been a full year cycle for many things for me, so I'm drawing a line under 2025, ready to start fresh in 2026. Turn the page. I love the idea of a Jar of Good Stuff, a friend also suggested that. Little slips of paper to note good things in your life, little moments of happiness, anything that makes you feel joyful, then put them all in a jar to consult as needed or save for the end of the year.
Gary L. Dryfoos
dear Amanda, Happy new year, too, to you and yours. Health, serenity, joy, and maybe even prosperity find you in the year to come. And when you finally get back to Cambridge, let's us get a cup of something, and maybe do some uke stuff?
Laura Wellner
Happy New Year! (Is 10:03 AM New Year's Eve Morning, still a lot of day to go.)
