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May We Be Happy, May We Be Healthy, May We Be Free

A New Yearā€™s message for 2025

Henry India HoldenšŸ’–
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2 min readDec 31, 2024

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A colorful abstract art collage in many hues of pink, purple, blue, and green, with the numbers 2025 in deep pink, smack in the middle. On each side of the numbers, a Champaign glass salutes the year.
ā€œ2025 Power of Loveā€ abstract collage Ā©2024 Henry India Holden.

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Dear friends, thank you for sharing your beautiful writing and being part of my Medium community this year. Itā€™s a privilege to be here with you. Though Iā€™ve posted little, Iā€™m still an editor at Engage Magazine and love reading your stories. My love and I are deep in writing a solarpunk, sapphic eco-romance, taking up my writing time.

As we all enter this new year, we know there are great challenges before us. But we also have sublime courage with which to encounter and work through them!

We may feel the weight of the next four years, but we hold fast to our ideals. So fast, we donā€™t ever deny the simple precious humanity in anyone else, even when their actions are painful to us. We may not understand, but we concede dignity to everyone.

We resist where needed. We support each other. And we create love and goodness because thatā€™s who we are.

Profound compassion and iron strength are the twin heart beats of positive change.

Every brave choice to care, to act, to hope, is a revolution. A revolution of compassion, empathy, strength and love that builds a future that reflects the best of who we are.

Letā€™s raise our glasses to 2025 as a year of power, connection, and boundless love and hope. This year, we keep showing up ā€” for ourselves, for each other, for the more beautiful world we can envision.

Happy New Year!

Zum Wohl, cheers, Ć  nossa, Ć lĆ Ć”fĆ­Ć , ä¹¾ęÆ, salud, santĆ©, ą¤šą¤æą¤Æą¤°ą„ą¤ø, Š—Š° Š·Š“Š¾Ń€Š¾Š²ŃŒŠµ, ē„å„åŗ·, Prost. May you be happy, may you be healthy, may you be free.

Henry India

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Henry India HoldenšŸ’–
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Written by Henry India HoldenšŸ’–

Eco-spiritual writings about nature, the human world & love. Soul coach, ecotherapist, Reiki master. henryindiaholden.com

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