This past year has been. . . challenging. Not impossible, not crashing out, just challenging.
I did not accomplish as much as I wanted for 2025, but that’s par for the course.
2025’s word was “Try.” I feel I did that. I tried and failed and tried again, learned something, tried again, actually succeeded; tried something else, rinse, lather, repeat.
But I didn’t feel like I tried as hard, or I got too derailed to try at all, and so on.
A lot happened that wasn’t supposed to, or that wasn’t planned, and required a lot of last minute plot twists to keep things going for everyone.
This year’s word is “Kintsugi.”
For those who don’t know, Kintsugi is a Japanese repair art/philosophy. The thing is broken. It can be repaired, with work and determination, but it will never be the same. There’s no way around that fact. It just won’t. The Kintsugi philosophy is based on “don’t hide the repairs, make them a part of the thing by incorporating the repairs into the new beauty of the thing.”
It seems to fit for 2026
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