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  • Lunar New Year: A Time To Shed

    The Year Of The Snake: A time to shed.

    I’m doing something today that I haven’t done in over a decade. I’m meeting my best friend for a sushi date. Just the two of us sharing an all you can eat spread of sushi just like we used to before life got so busy with careers, families, etc. It also happens to coincide with Lunar New Year (which, she pointed out, means that we have brought in yet another New Year together). This year we are in the year of the snake. I interpreted that as an inspiration to shed both literally and figuratively. So after a thorough exfoliating session and a much needed haircut, I also contemplated what beliefs and ideas about my life and myself I wanted to let go of. The intention for 2025 has been to reflect, to let go of what no longer serves me, and to follow my passion and I think the theme of the year of the snake is very much on par with exactly that. So today I will eat my favorite rolls (mango avocado), laugh with my best friend, and go home to my favorite people (my husband and my son) so we can light some beeswax candles and engage in a conversation about shedding and making space for what we truly desire to come in. It’s such a beautiful thing to experience. To follow my heart’s desires, to do what lights me up, and to be able to share that with those I love. Happy shedding to you all!

  • New Year’s Eve Fireworks: A Romantic Reflection

    There’s something so romantic about watching the fireworks light up the night sky with someone’s loving arms around you. Especially in New York City. Especially on New Years Eve. As my husband and I stood hugging one another within a few feet of our car (where our son sat falling in and out of sleep, refusing to get out into the chilly December/January air to watch the fireworks), I remembered another moment when I was at that same Promenade and saw fireworks. Only these fireworks were figurative. It was a warm summer night and my husband and I were just beginning our relationship. We had been on a handful of dates but this date would forever be the one that allowed us to truly feel that this was something special in the making. As we stood on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade, looking across the East Rive at the mesmerizing sight that is New York City as it lit up the night skyline, we looked at each other and shared our first kiss. I closed my eyes and saw (and felt, if that’s at all possible) fireworks. When I opened my eyes, I told my husband what I felt. He told me he shared my sentiment. That was ten years ago. As we stood in the vicinity of that first kiss, welcoming our tenth New Year together, I set the intention for even more love, even more intimacy, even more connection, even more adventures together. I then told my husband about my intentions. He told me he shared my sentiment.

  • Embracing 2025: A Journey to Follow My Passion

    On New Year’s Eve 2024, while sitting in my favorite restaurant that feels purely “old New York”, surrounded by my husband, our son, and my best friend and her family, at a table overwhelmed by delicious Italian food, I decided that the coming year of 2025 would be the year that I find and follow my passion. It would be the year that I shed anything that’s in the way of my absolute authentic self. It would be the year that I would take my biggest leaps with complete faith and design a life that I have always dreamed of living. So, after our fulfilling dinner (both belly and soul), and after cruising down the West side highway with minutes to spare to make it to the Promenade above Brooklyn Bridge Park so that we can have a prime view of the Lady Liberty fireworks to welcome in the new year, as I watched the sparkly colorful explosions in the sky, I wondered to the universe: “Universe, show me how good my life can get! Show my best year yet!”. And since I fully expect the universe to do just that, I’ll be journaling my experience throughout the year. So this is my first entry and already I feel the magic. ✨