After a long winter’s nap,
I’m entering 2025 well rested, substantially (not fully) recovered from whatever that was that was 2024, and just peachy about this new year.
For a second year in a row, I turned another annual calendar page with my friends, banging our heads around at midnight in a dive in Southern Pines, NC.
During “work" hours” on vacation time over the past few weeks, I wrote the 2024 avec Impact Report.
Naturally, this body/mind/spirit can’t sustain the work hard, play hard, work hard again cycle, so since wrapping up all of the above I’ve been, mmmmm……très “résolument” - unwaveringly and unabashedly - prioritizing nothing but rest these first days of 2025. For approximately 10-14 hours per day for four entire days, I indulged in the sweet bliss of une pause. Coming off completing my NC Real Estate Licensure class (woo!!) and teaching a handful of youth dance classes the past couple months, I am proud to see how I’ve achieved some state of “well” enough to effectively defend against the so-called cold and flu “season”!
It was a hell of a year, that 2024 (slowly losing my mind from my job Jan-Jun, quitting said job and leaving NYC to move back home with my parents, taking a 90-hour NC real estate licensure class, working for my family business and - oh yeah - healing from burnout and change and disease and a whole host of surprising new challenges) and my body is finally showing me that I’m strong enough (and the infliximab is working well enough) to handle it.
Oh, and one last (VERY important) thing about 2024:
My big brother proposed!
I could go on and on about this couple and how spectacular they are individually and together, but the easiest way to describe their essence is purely a joyful, whole-hearted, honest love. They each beam with existential joy and together have this star power igniting warmth and love from everyone around them. It’s damn beautiful and I feel lucky to see and be a part of it. As our families have become closer over time, I have nothing but gratitude for both of them for being incredible role models and genuinely good people.
Anyways, here are 10 songs I’ve had on repeat:
Thank you for being here to watch avec grow. This platform is designed for independent artists interested in creating and producing original work. I feel lucky to have this outlet for my own original work and hope to inspire community members to keep creating their own. If all my plans go off without a hitch (~manifest~) we should have a really exciting year ahead of us over here at avec. Until then, adieu!