How do I tackle 2025?
Do I put my head in the sand?
Stay clear of all social media?
Riot?
Protest everyday?
Boycott everything?
Get well fitted blinders?
Lobotomy?
Here is the thing. I want balance in my life. There are things I can control and so many things I cannot.
So maybe a little of everything is in order.
Already I have set the bar very low for 2025.
But not for myself.
Professionally and artistically I am working on projects and trying to get the best work possible out of me.
Hopefully this year the book I co-edited will be coming out (some really good stuff in it if you are into academic librarianship), I am co-moderating a round table at a conference, and will be looking for call outs for book chapters. It has been awhile and I think I am due to write some more on the profession I love. I will continue to kick ass at work and serve students at 150%.
I have also decided to take some classes so I can work with other mediums and create art (mosaics, knitting), make more puppet videos, and get some music projects going. Oh yeah, and write. Fiction? Maybe. I dunno maybe start a writer group or something. Not sure still workshopping this endeavor.
To be able to have balance in my life I think some days I will have to have my head in the sand, be free of social media, and give myself a temporary lobotomy with popcorn tv binges. Other days I will participate and add my voice of dissent, and do other duties as needed to start a revolution.
The world is whackadoodle these days. War. Hate. Distrust. Garbage people in power. The works (shitty works!).
Lucky for me I have a rad kid and an awes husband who are there for me to help me put my head in the sand or walk beside me during a protest.
Good luck to all of us.
