Endings, Beginnings 2025-2026

January 2026

Glass half Full?

Yes, I’ll go with that.

January 2026

I have the saying, “May you live in interesting times,” stuck in my head, which I’ve been familiar with for a long time. AI informs me that it is attributed to several people, but the gist is that it’s more likely a Chinese curse than anything else. “Interesting” is likely to mean “troubled”.

This last year was yet again another “interesting” one indeed. We’re all painfully aware of the political climate we live in now, which is well belabored ad infinitum (and sometimes, AI-generated) on every news platform and not what I’m speaking to today.

I want to speak to the many lives of my friends and family, lives that I am directly touched by, lives that have been spun around. Not all bad, but in quite significant ways.

Not to sound woo, but ok, I guess this is: We are also aware, or some of us are, that there is some kind of paradigm shift going on in the Universe. Time has, without question, sped up, and those who need to exit are being invited or pressed to do so. And those who need/want to level up their contributions, their legacy are being pushed forward that way, too. It seems to me, at least with people I know, a next-level movement and urge to evolve is afoot.

The holiday season, the whole month of December, was a bumpy one. In the midst of connecting and celebrating with many sweet moments, breaking bread (more like being, as per usual, over served!), there was lots of sad news; friends being diagnosed with stage 4 cancer, others with less significant ones but with considerable health challenges ahead, beloved furry companions being helped over the rainbow bridge, friends’ parents (mine are long gone may they RIP) passing.

I don’t have to look beyond my personal sphere to feel this pervasive, heavy energy.

Death, as a real thing and as a theme, seems to be hovering around all the time like a dark cloud. Yes, literal passages, but the ones that are happening all the time in terms of endings and beginnings.

Maybe because I’m nearly 70, I’m more conscious of it? Or maybe there is something else to do with it? I don’t remember being this intensely aware of the ephemeral nature of it all; my mortality and those that I care for didn’t seem to occupy so much real estate in my brain. Maybe I was too self-absorbed, too preoccupied with just survival, the minutia of everydayness? But I think younger people whom I engage with reflect an urgency about their lives, too. Maybe I’m just projecting…?

Even as I feel the loss and changes, watching and feeling the gradual but certain decline in my physicality, the grief for so many (I’m an empath all the way - I don’t need to know you or live in your reality - I Feel You), I also feel that amidst the chaos, there is some weird ass divine order to it all.

Maybe it’s heavy, maybe it ain’t fun? But I have a sense of acceptance. Not to be confused with defeat or giving up on life, love, or hope.

It has and always will spring eternal for me. Even when I feel grief, depression or deep melancholy, I can sometimes feel it’s perfection too, like all is in divine order. And, no, I’m agnostic, so I’m not referring to the big G in the sky defined by organized religion.

I just kind of get that we can’t stop the seasons; we can’t slow them down or speed them up. Not really. Or maybe no matter what shit is gonna unfold, no matter how much control we might try to exert over the outcome, things are just gonna happen. The inevitable is going to happen!

And.

That includes the good shit too!

Like, my besty girl finding and settling in with her mate, both in their sixties. Not new kids kicking it together! Both, with grown children they’ve raised, now fully into their own adult lives.

That was unexpected!

And landing a home together on the first pass of looking, not even that sure of their future. Not just any home, but a beautiful one, perfectly laid out for their needs and preferences.

And suddenly! They are on this new trajectory. Together as a couple

This time last year, neither were even on each other’s radars, particularly. Both had kind of settled into maybe a partnership was, at this point in their lives, off the table.

In my own life, too, there have been some surprises, giving me more opportunity to share with others with less.

There has been much Good and a fair share of sad this year…

And as always…

Isn’t that how it goes…

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