A quick hello before a little rest

Rolling slowly into 2025

Hello Dear Readers,

I hope this finds you well and enjoying these in-between days, giving yourself the space and quiet and reflection time before the turning of a new year. I find these days generally really lovely and in past years have often found the time to sit and reflect on the year past and the year ahead. I’ve made time for intention setting and writing prompts and lots of spacious exhales as the year closes out and the world feels oh so quiet. This year is a bit of a different vibe. My husband and I are moving to the mountains of Highland county, Virginia for the first few months of the year. Trading our city life out for some deep, restful, nature filled wintertime. In order to make it all happen, we are renting our home out in Richmond, and had to pack up all of our belongings (no small feat), and get our house ready for the renters to move into tomorrow. We are in a limbo space…I’m currently writing to you all from the guest bedroom at my in-laws house before we carry on to see my parents and siblings in Maryland for a few days, and finally land in the mountains early next week.

That being said, I am not feeling super reflective or spacious enough yet to even think about this past year or the one ahead. I have a few ideas and feelings about it all, but to properly give the seasons past the respect that they deserve, I would like to take my time with all of this and move the ‘deadline’ of the new year a few weeks out still.

I won’t be sharing my reflections with you all here as I thought I would, not yet at least. I’ll be taking a much needed break from technology for the first few weeks of the year, and will use that time to steep into these thoughts and stories and share at a later time when I have more creative and thoughtful juices flowing. I hope you all can take the space and time you need to as well! Filling your days with real rest, real connection, real beauty.

I will share that I am VERY proud and grateful that I got to donate $3500 to RVA Community Fridges today, having 10% of profits from my calendar sales this year to go towards their mission. Being a small business owner is very tough and tiring and demands a lot of you in all of the ways. Many days one wonders if it is all worth it. But when I get to make moments like this happen- supporting my local community with accessible, fresh, free food- it makes it all feel so worthwhile and rich. Thank you endlessly for your purchases.

I’ve still got a few calendars left to sell, and they are now majorly discounted in my webshop here.

Thank you for being here and for reading all that I choose to share and for all that you do to support. I am so grateful for this community and don’t take any of it for granted!

Sending every one of you well wishes for peace and kindness as we enter the river of 2025. Happy New Year.

See y’all in a few weeks! <3