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New Year resolution suggestions:
1. Respond to things with emoji that have nothing to do with the conversation.
2. Practice making goblin noises daily.
3. Get to know your neighborhood crows.
4. Commit to memory an uncomfortable amount of information about yogurt.
1. Respond to things with emoji that have nothing to do with the conversation.
2. Practice making goblin noises daily.
3. Get to know your neighborhood crows.
4. Commit to memory an uncomfortable amount of information about yogurt.
5. Buy a Cape. Wear it to events that do not normally involve Capes. Do not acknowledge that you are the only one in a Cape.
6. Collect some rocks. Name them. Tell them the things you should be telling a therapist.
7. Learn about 3 new insects.
6. Collect some rocks. Name them. Tell them the things you should be telling a therapist.
7. Learn about 3 new insects.
8. Catalog and document all the likely elf bridges and doorways within half a mile of your home.
9. Try (again) to become a bird. It might work this time, you never know.
10. Eat more edible flowers and microgreens.
11. Take at least one photo of a very attractive amphibian.
9. Try (again) to become a bird. It might work this time, you never know.
10. Eat more edible flowers and microgreens.
11. Take at least one photo of a very attractive amphibian.
12. Refrain from accidentally summoning eldritch horrors.
13. Read a balanced mix of fiction and nonfiction, and try to read authors whose lives are different from your own.
14. Spend more time taking care of your teeth. Don't you want them to be nice and sharp, darling?
13. Read a balanced mix of fiction and nonfiction, and try to read authors whose lives are different from your own.
14. Spend more time taking care of your teeth. Don't you want them to be nice and sharp, darling?
15. Give in to your desire to collect treasures. It is natural for you.
16. Spend a little extra time maintaining your scales. If you need recs for fun new bath and body products, hit me up.
17. Take only what you need.
18. Practice being a deer. It could come in handy.
16. Spend a little extra time maintaining your scales. If you need recs for fun new bath and body products, hit me up.
17. Take only what you need.
18. Practice being a deer. It could come in handy.
20. Make subtle but COMMITTED references to jokes from books you loved as a child even if you are LITERALLY the only one alive in this vast lonely world who remembers Miss Zarves.
21. Hold to your superstitions PASSIONATELY.
22. Admit, finally, that Backstreet Boys were the best.
21. Hold to your superstitions PASSIONATELY.
22. Admit, finally, that Backstreet Boys were the best.
23. Touch a fish.
24. Don't complain about your own poor choices unless you are able to do so in an entertaining manner. The forest will grow impatient if you are dull.
25. Watch a sunrise entirely alone.
26. Ask someone to teach you something they love.
24. Don't complain about your own poor choices unless you are able to do so in an entertaining manner. The forest will grow impatient if you are dull.
25. Watch a sunrise entirely alone.
26. Ask someone to teach you something they love.
27. If you are able, go somewhere Owls live. Stay up late. Listen to them. Learn to talk back. Let yourself slide into that liminal space between waking and dreaming. Fly.
28. Make time to listen to that podcast. Take up knitting while you're at it.
29. Use more beautiful words.
28. Make time to listen to that podcast. Take up knitting while you're at it.
29. Use more beautiful words.
30: commit to something bigger than you, not for what praise or rewards or payment you'll get, but for what it'll do for the shadowy places where the animal part of you is licking old wounds. Give, not to get, but because to give is to connect, to make better, to bring together.
