What Stayed With Me in 2025

Notes on the body, culture, and refusing novelty

I. Back Where I Started

I’m ending the year where I began it, but I’m not the same person who left. The year didn’t resolve me. Or I didn’t resolve the year. I will attempt here to simplify it. And yes, I’ll add here and there some of ‘best of 2025 …’ as I stayed porous despite having been an annus horribilis.¹

This is not a story of reinvention, promotion…