12.29.24 // 2024

2024
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I can't believe we are wrapping up 2024. This year has felt so brief and yet so long. It's stretched on for miles and shrank down to mere minutes. Time this year has felt so erratic, chaotic, and unpredictable, as if it was consistently changing and not steadily beating forward and in that ever-consistent way, never relenting, never coming back, never stopping even in the moments we long to hold for just a little longer.
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Our most valuable resource, time, waits for no one. I treat it as infinite, and then the pendulum swings to panic when I realize it's not. But time, as valuable as it is, just is. I have no control over it, can't make it stop, and can't make it go faster, but I can slow the swinging pendulum to find comfort in the radical acceptance of time.
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In hopes of creating more comfort for the in-betweens, I'm taking some time to reflect on the last year, the highlights and the lowlights, the full spectrum of time and the mixture of moments I want to stay in and the ones I tried to floor the gas pedal on to the next.

2024 Highlights:
1. My 1st full summer in Seattle.
2. Running Rim-to-Rim-to-Rim (50m) in the Grand Canyon.
3. Working on my biggest modeling gig (releasing in Jan.).
4. Finally getting to Iceland—experiencing the land of fire and ice!
5. Returning to one of the places my heart feels happiest, Chamonix.
6. Quality time with Scout as she ages and becomes even cuddlier.
7. Adventuring with D, sharing my love of travel and new horizons.
8. Spending time in the desert, where my heart sings as loudly as in the mountains.

2024 Lowlights​ (no photos, but important to share):
1. Struggling to write, create, and let my creativity bloom.
2. The messy, ego-killing challenge of meshing two lives into one shared life.
3. An election result that shocked me to my core.
4. Being turned down for multiple modeling gigs.
5. Letting Insatiably Curious Club fall to the wayside again.
6. Still working through trauma from recent years.
7. Struggling to solve lingering health mysteries.
8. Reconciling my extroversion shifting toward introversion, especially socially.