"If we make it through
December,
Everything's gonna be all
right, I know..."
Goodbye, 2024. Honestly, for me, it feels like it only just
began yesterday. But it has been a difficult year for too many people that I
love, and so I am happy to see it go and hoping for a much better 2025 for
everyone.
My word for 2024 was adapt. It was a fitting word- one that I picked knowing that I had no choice but to do my best to succeed in too many trying situations. Ever the Pollyanna, I have hopes that next year everything will fall into place. It was perhaps a word that I should have stumbled upon much earlier in my life.
Adapt was needed and necessary in a year of a lot of stress and I will certainly hold onto it as I start into a new year of change that I never crave but that comes whether I want it or not.
(All of my words seem to fold into my life and stay with me- it's one of the reasons that I love the practice of adopting a word every year.)
For 2025, my word is create. What exactly that means, I
guess we are going to find out.
But I know this- all the best is yet to come.
Favorite Books of 2024:
Dinner for Vampires by Bethany Joy Lenz
Disney High: The Untold Story of the Rise and Fall of Disney
Channel’s Tween Empire by Ashley Spencer
Blue Sisters by Coco Mellors
You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World edited by Ada Limon
The Magnificent Lives of Marjorie Post by Allison Pataki
The God of the Woods by Liz Moore
You Couldn’t Ignore Me If You Tried: The Brat Pack, John
Hughes, and Their Impact on a Generation by Susannah Gora
Rebel Rising by Rebel Wilson
God Gave Rock and Roll to You: A History of Contemporary
Christian Music by Leah Payne
Darling Girl by Liz Michalski
Listen for the Lie by Amy Tintera
Dolores Claiborne by Stephen King
Room to Grow: An Appetite for Life by Tracey Gold
Oscar Wars: A History of Hollywood in Gold, Sweat and Tears
by Michael Schulman
Romney: A Reckoning by McKay Coppins
The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke
Renegade: Defending Democracy and Liberty in a Divided
Country by Adam Kinzinger
Being Henry: The Fonz and Beyond by Henry Winkler
Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals
in the Age of Extremism by Tim Alberta
The New Testament in Its World by N.T. Wright
All My Knotted-Up Life by Beth Moore
