January 20th, 2025, a day to take your trajectory back
New image made combining photographs of new/vintage lace work and my domestic space along with digital drawing elements. I won’t accept what is put in front of me. I will always question, prod, intervene where needed.
Today is the day I start posting here instead of on a 3rd party app. I know the audience is over there, supposedly, but the control is here, and one of the things I’ve clarified for myself in the last 6 years is that having control of my own trajectory is worth more to me than jumping through hoops for a larger audience. I’ve learned that the size of the crowd is not an indicator of the impact or important of the message. If you’re reading this, it probably means you have already self selected to be one of the people who follow my practice, so thank you for making the effort to leave the apps to continue to see what I make and read what I think.
I have learned that arguing with children, and adults that act like children, is pointless. You cannot teach people who do not want to learn. Instead you must simply proceed to be better and model being better without wasting time on convincing others they need to be better. People must first WANT to feel differently before they can access ways to do so. We need a massive revaluing, a massive remembering of what it means to prioritize authenticity, happiness, security, connection, and more people reaching their full potential. Profit has been the lodestar for too long. If your job, or the majority of your time, is spent maximizing your or someone else’s profit, at the expense of others, with little actual value added to the world, I challenge you in 2025 to stop. Stop accepting this as the only acceptable goal. Why do profits need to grow? Why do profits need to be valued over happiness? Why must we constantly scale up? I challenge the way capitalism has infiltrated every single aspect of our lives with this notion that more and newer is always better. What if to go forwards in a meaningful way we must get better at looking back and learning from lived experience?
Today is a hard day for many because a predator is being installed as President of the United States, again. My vigilance has been spiked since the election in anticipation of the cruel volatility that is the point of MAGA. You cannot appease and befriend true abusers, those who seek comfort in the repetition of the lies they tell themselves about who they are. You cannot make those caught in that cancerous kaleidescopic worldview believe that those outside of it deserve to exist. I spent his first administration speaking out against every lie he spoke, but this time, I will not waste my energy refuting what I know is false. I will not externalize my rage until I am exhausted. Instead, I will take to the page and I will write about the things we need to remember amidst all this distraction. I hope those that want to live a more authentic life can find their way here and take my ideas into their communities with actions and shift something on a tangible, tactile level.