Tuning In: January 2025

Each month I post an update called Tuning In on what I'm up to and content I would like to share with you. Most of the links on this post are informational, but a few are affiliate links to help maintain this website.

Instead of making New Year's resolutions, I choose a word to represent an intention for the coming year. In 2024, my word was "momentum." In January of last year, I wrote that I was "ready for my wings." Perhaps I should've chosen a phrase instead of a word, like "building momentum." I feel my wings pushing through, but only as small buds.

Last year I finished my first year of my MFA in Creative Writing at the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University and completed the Outside Experience requirement of the program by riding all the Washington State Ferry routes. Yet, the entire year felt like a lot of fits and starts—lacking the steady movement I was hoping for last January. Which is why this year I am choosing the word "center." My goal this year is to keep my aspirations in focus and when I am knocked off my center remember to keep coming back to it as much as necessary. 

Focusing on my work life, my creative life, my family & friends, and ongoing healing. 

What is your word for 2025? ​

Ferry Lights from Lincoln Park, West Seattle

Upcoming Events:

• New Year's Day is January 1st, 2025
• ​Save the Eagles Day & National Houseplant Appreciation Day is January 10th, 2025
• National Nothing Day is January 16th, 2025
• Martin Luther King Jr. Day is January 20th, 2025

 
Facilitating: 

• Center for Chronic Illness - Living with Rare Chronic Illness  Support Group, Tuesday January 7th, 2025 at 4pm PST

Attending:

• Not attending any events this month. 

All Fours by Miranda July

Book Club: All Fours by Miranda July 
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"A semi-famous artist announces her plan to drive cross-country, from LA to NY. Thirty minutes after leaving her husband and child at home, she spontaneously exits the freeway, checks into a nondescript motel, and immerses herself in an entirely different journey.

Miranda July’s second novel confirms the brilliance of her unique approach to fiction. With July’s wry voice, perfect comic timing, unabashed curiosity about human intimacy, and palpable delight in pushing boundaries, All Fours tells the story of one woman’s quest for a new kind of freedom. Part absurd entertainment, part tender reinvention of the sexual, romantic, and domestic life of a forty-five-year-old female artist, All Fours transcends expectation while excavating our beliefs about life lived as a woman. Once again, July hijacks the familiar and turns it into something new and thrillingly, profoundly alive."
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​(I'm a proud member of the sloth reading club, so what I'm reading will not always change monthly) 

Vintage Art: ​

New Years Eve Party, 1931-1932

Song on Repeat: ​New Year's Day by Taylor Swift 

"Hold on to the memories
They will hold on to you"

Quote: "Kindness, kindness, kindness. I want to make a New Year’s prayer, not a resolution. I’m praying for courage." - Susan Sontag