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Hi friends! It’s the first newsletter of 2025 and in a few weeks this newsletter will be heading into its sixth year. I haven’t yet begun to process that but I think it’s definitely something I need to celebrate.

New year’s eve was full of cooking and cleaning, protection candles and superstitions, and trying to distract ourselves from the fireworks/gunfire chaos that is most holidays here. On the 1st we recorded our next EEDA Pod episode and otherwise lounged. It was back to work on Thursday.

Before the end of the year, I did manage to call our credit union to have them fix something. It had been on my to-do list since February 20th and I didn’t want this to haunt me into the new year.

It took 3 minutes. I promise I have learned nothing from this.

Anyway, if you’ve been here a while then you won’t be surprised to learn that this week I’m going to talk about goals/intentions/resolutions/etc. for 2025. Over on our Patreon, we have added a new paid feature: The 2025 EEDA Goal & Intention Check-in Space! If there is one thing in particular that you think it would help to have group encouragement and support with, please join us at patreon.com/eedapod.