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How to (not) keep up when there is too much happening in the world

2025 started off with an unusual paralysis. I didn’t feel a burst of energy, abundance, desires, or hopes as I normally would. Each year, I go through a deep ritual of compartmentalizing parts of my life and how I wish to improve on each aspect (e.g. in the friendship category: “check in on my long distance friends more regularly” or in the project category: “submit a zine to TTZ”). But this month, this time, so far, has been quite unremarkable, for the better or the worse. Thankfully, it hasn’t been the opposite either — lethargic, sluggish, despondent. I have just been finding myself as I…

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