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Crow’s Feet Writing Prompt #73: Rest & Recharge Time
Things To Do Before 2025 Dawns
I promise none of them has anything to do with politics
Celebrate it, mourn it, or some combo of both, 2024 is about to swirl off into the sparkly dust in our rearview mirrors. Speaking for myself, if the year we’ve just lived through were displayed as a line graph, it would look like the Himalayas.
That’s because the Himalayas have not only the highest peaks but also the lowest river gorges of any mountain range on Earth. That’s been my 2024: thrilling, rarefied heights and bottomed-out lows.
I doubt I’m alone in feeling that way about what’s about to become the Old Year. Nor do I believe I’m the only one looking toward the New Year with a bit of a squint. But that’s still in the future.
For the present (pun intended), here are the Holidays. You may cherish them or wish they would just get themselves over with, but it’s a sure bet that this caesura in the rhythm of normal life brings up a lot of competing feels. Nostalgia and hope. Exhaustion and exhilaration. Tension and (with luck) relaxation.
If you’re one of those whose job it is to produce Christmas or one of its adjacent festivities — which means most parents, especially moms —…
