Lessons from the Year 2025

Now is the time of year when I take time to pause, reflect, review the year that has been, and think about everything I’ve learned over the past year. This year has brought me many events to reflect upon, as well as many lessons to learn. Here then are the lessons I’ve learned from the year 2025:

-Beautiful Christmas decorations can bring about a true, gasp worthy moment.
https://letrasalaluna.blogspot.com/2025/02/gasp.html

-Your world changes, forever, when your mother dies.
https://letrasalaluna.blogspot.com/2025/02/all-shall-be-well.html

-It can be a wonderful thing to donate to a worthy cause in the name and memory of someone you love.
https://letrasalaluna.blogspot.com/2025/05/in-memoriam.html

-Sometimes we’re just ready for the rain.
https://letrasalaluna.blogspot.com/2025/07/ready-for-rain.html

-A year of firsts can feel like it will last a lifetime.
https://letrasalaluna.blogspot.com/2025/07/a-year-of-firsts.html

-I still marvel at the mere memory of seeing the sky torn.
https://letrasalaluna.blogspot.com/2025/08/torn.html

-The universe can surprise you with a moment you can only be described as being “woo woo”
https://letrasalaluna.blogspot.com/2025/09/woo-woo.html

-It was wonderful to join the Substack community.
https://letrasalaluna.blogspot.com/2025/09/dear-luna-i-have-news.html

-It was an honor and privilege to publish my latest book. It is dedicated to my mother. I published it on my father’s ninety-fifth birthday.
https://letrasalaluna.blogspot.com/2025/10/established.html

-Losing a pet is its own unique heart-wrenching loss.
https://letrasalaluna.blogspot.com/2025/10/for-my-jazz.html

-Still getting comfortable with the concept of becoming comfortable with the uncomfortable.
https://letrasalaluna.blogspot.com/2025/12/dichotomy.html

-Christmas 2025 was a silent night, calm and bright.
https://letrasalaluna.blogspot.com/2025/12/christmas-missive-2025.html
 
What a year it has been. This year has been unlike any other in recent memory. While there were once in a lifetime, fantastic moments that happened to me, I also experienced moments of great loss, which will also, thankfully, only happen once in a lifetime.

With the bitter comes the sweet. We cannot know and see the light without also having known and seen the darkness.

We close the book on the Year of the Snake. We open the pages of the Year of the Horse. I look forward to learning the lessons the New Year brings.
 
Peace to you, in every corner of the universe. Amen, Ashe, Namaste.
            -Hope

"Goodbye 2025 Welcome 2026" by Esperanza Habla

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