Awareness of the outside world. Fix The News: The Telemetry, Hervey, Dec 29, 2025. Global recap of 2025. Long but worth reading, both for uplifting news & for writing style. The author celebrates the good without ignoring the bad. “If you’re … a single mother in New Jersey struggling to pay the rent … no amount of statistics or lines going up on a graph is going to matter.” Phrases that stood out to me, “Knowing which emergencies require immediate action means you need to watch all the instruments, not just the alarms.” & “… the truth, which is that some things are genuinely scary, some things are going great, and most of it is just really complicated.” & “The system isn’t run by anyone; it’s the result of billions of choices made over decades.” Content warning, the first section talks about progress with a disease, the symptoms of which are not peaceful.
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My theme for 2025 was a return to status quo ante. Either because not much changed, or because I had to work to get back to where I was.
Health
Broke two bones this year. Right metatarsal in March. Right radius in November. That’s gonna put a dent in a year. Good news is that the foot healed on time and well. Arm on schedule to do the same. Also, no pattern between the two, no disease indicators, just bad luck.
Horses
We continued with daily morning walks. They continued to be retired. I continued to have thoughts about this.
Other Horses
ASB. Enjoyed having no nerves at the show in May. Enjoyed fancy horses & fluffy ribbons at the inaugural academy regional show in October.
Hunter/Jumper. Lesson barn!
Writing
Stayed with the blog. This will be post 365 for the year.
Kept up with my professional assignments. I’m really proud of hitting the last one of the year. My initial occupational therapy was typing for the December deadline with my arm in a splint. My wrist may never get to 90o again but d*mn it my fingers will be nimble. Had husband proofread the emails for that assignment, to be sure the pain meds weren’t doing the talking.
Photography
Shifted from photo adventures to found photos. Am now talking all blog photos with my phone, both photos for content and photos for photography posts. There is no reason I couldn’t go somewhere, take pictures of something with phone camera, but I don’t. I tend to wander by something and think, Hey that would make a nice photo. [Autumn In The City]
Onwards to 2026!
Katherine
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