The present is merely the transition of the future into the past. Just as any point in space lacks all three spatial dimensions of height, width and depth, the present lacks temporal dimension. Yet, any moment in the present is the beginning of whatever happens next. Somehow, this becomes more obvious as one year relinquishes to the next, as 2024 just did for 2025. Happy New Year!

For Rhody and I, 2025 will be a wild ride, in more ways that I can describe in detail now. This was not planned to coincide with the New Year, but coincidentally began to develop as such as 2024 was finishing. I can explain the possibility of major but weirdly anticipated changes within my professional career if and when they develop, as I prefer to not do so now. I will only mention that it all could progress as I always knew it should, but that if it does, it will involve major challenges, including departure from some of my work that I enjoy very much.

For now, we are more concerned with even more major and weirdly anticipated changes to our domestic situation. Rhody and I will be going home. Of course, it is not that simple. It will be quite a while before we can do it, and it may not happen until 2026. To be brief, I am now planning construction of the new house next to where the old house was. I am not at all keen on a new house, but I knew decades ago that the old house would need replacement, and that I can not build an old house. Also, I am not at all keen on leaving here, but again, I always knew that this situation is only temporary.

For Sunday Best last Sunday, I posted an odd picture of a Nativity in a forest. It was only labeled as ‘Home for Christmas’, without any other explanation. To provide more details, it shows my mother’s Nativity on Christmas morning about where the parlor of the new home will eventually be. The picture below shows a bit more of the still overgrown forest beyond.

Across the road from the homesite, the garden and orchard above it are in such horrible condition that their reclamation will take quite a while. The landscape at the homesite can wait, and ultimately, will be very minimal. The volume of vegetation that must be removed is daunting. As I mentioned earlier, I expect a wild ride in 2025.

14 thoughts on “Happy New Year – 2025!”

  1. Happy New Year Tony and Rhody! It sounds like the year will hold some interesting challenges, so wishing you luck with them all. The site for the new house looks like it is in the middle of the woods, which seems perfect for an arborist!

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    1. Technically, it is about fourteen feet and three and seven sixteenths of an inch to the east of the middle of the woods, so not quite there. I should eventually get some better pictures of the situation.

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    1. I do not expect it to be easy. Even if it is the easiest that it could be, it will not be easy. Regardless of how I tried to stay aware of the temporariness of my situations, I do not want to leave the home where I lived temporarily, or the temporary work. However, I want the other situations more. Ultimately, it will be quite a bit of work, but it will be awesome.

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      1. I still remember my “Ah, ha!” moment when I learned that the psychologists not only talk about ‘distress,’ they also use the interesting word ‘eustress.’ That’s the stress that comes along with the good events in life: job changes, moving home, and so on. Even getting to ‘awesome’ can be challenging; it’s no wonder we have mixed feelings.

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