ALT The photo features text displayed on a light-toned background designed to resemble crumpled paper. Below is what the text says: For 2025—Do I need a resolution? When the mirror before me still reflects last year’s tale? I’ve bent, I’ve shifted to difference, Molded by hands not my own—to fit the frames of others’ ideas of me and to breathe in pattern not my own design. But now I wonder, could change still bloom in me? Am I a seed still yearning for a healthy soil or a developed tree, already steadfast, and roots deep in self-knowing? And if I alter even for one bit, will I lose the echo of my voice—the shape of my own soul’s silhouette? Perhaps change need not be loud. Perhaps it is the soft flicker of a fire. A kindness stretched a little further. A dream cradled a little closer. So, this year, let my resolution be this: To hold stillness without apology, To breathe as I am— And to let what changes come Be not imposed, but invited. Welcome, 2025.
