Hello, January! And hello, 2025!

I feel like January is quite the contrast to December’s whirl of holidays and merrymaking. It’s like the old year’s growth and excess gets plowed over, trimmed out, and cleaned up, and the new year is quiet and waiting for the germination of new ideas, adventures, and experiences.

I know New Year’s resolutions are considered a thing of the past, but I really enjoy the process of trying to catch a vision of where I want to be a year from now.  Maybe the goals I make won’t end up turning out the way I had hoped at the beginning of the journey—kinda like that picturesque family meal that unfailingly turns out looking more like a small bomb detonated somewhere between the soup and the sandwiches-but I just might end up a little closer to realizing that vision than when I started.

So just for fun, here’s some of the goals I’m setting out to accomplish for 2025:

*write and work this blog consistently (I know,  dream the impossible dream, right?)

*learn to play the guitar

*plant and maintain a vegetable garden (2020’s garden had me thinking all ten of my digits were green but the past four years have seen a definite downward trend)

*Go on more bike rides

*learn how to make different types of bread (hello, ciabatta and como) and maybe even try to jump back on the sourdough train again-feeding that starter though is like raising a small child, needy and starving 24/7.

*go on a camping trip (confession: I have only been camping twice in my life)

*mayyyyyyybe learn how to surf (nothing like embarrassing teenage children) 

We’ll see how far I actually get in making these things happen, but at this point, it’s fun to dream.