calendar – Coriander in the Spice Rack

This month’s theme is more of a prayer and a hope for the world. Please show mercy to each other. Please heal hearts and change minds. Please illuminate the truth of each of our belonging. Please send miracles.

Every new day in the U.S. brings a new horror. “Now what?” is an often asked question from me. As a transgender human, I am scared. Yes, I live in a blue state, and one that adopted language that is inclusive to trans people. This is about more than just me, myself and I. People from all over the world came to the U.S. for refuge for a wide variety of reasons, including being trans. Now where do they go? People were still waiting to come here from Afghanistan.

It’s a tender time.

The Ides of March saw the downfall of Julius Caesar. It’s around the same time we mark the arrival of St. Patrick in Ireland. I don’t know what March will hold, but my greatest desire is mercy and hope for better things. Personally, St. Patrick’s Day is a day of beautiful music and community for me.

I will get out my fiddle and play my heart out.

May March bring each of us a bit o’ luck, a bit o’ fortune, and a bit o’ peace.

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Junk drawers are usually full. Full of important office-type equipment – pens, pencils, paperclips, various kinds of tape, erasers, markers, and odds and ends that don’t otherwise have homes. They are the DOOM BOX of cabinetry. You have to clean them out now and again, in order to find items you thought you’d lost, realize there is no optimal way of organizing this weird claptrap collection of bits and bobs, and to re-lose items until the next cleaning.

I feel like 2024 has been the junk drawer of years in a lot of ways. It is time for a good clean-out to start the year fresh. So many things feel up in the air, and topsy turvy. There is no good way of making things feel right again, probably not for some time. But, we might find some valuable gems in the process.

Hold on to those precious valuables that you find along the way. Cherish the friends who help you laugh during the hard times. Eat dessert first and savor each bite. Stop and smell the roses. Listen to the ear worm that is stuck in your head.

As we collectively look back at 2024 and the pandemic years that came before, let us dance into 2025 with a good pen and a blank sheet of paper to create something new.

Happy New Year!

Should old acquaintance be forgot
And never brought to mind?
Should old acquaintance be forgot
In the days of auld lang syne?

For auld lang syne, my dear
For auld lang syne
We’ll drink a cup of kindness yet
For the sake of auld lang syne

Cheers to you, Uncle Eric! You are missed so much and will never be forgotten.