✨ Greetings ✨

05 Jan, 2025

Hi 👋🏻 I'm Loney.

2025 is a threshold year ¹. I can feel the beginning of my next life chapter and cycle. We are collectively in between federal administrations stepping from one world to the next, and I am personally just coming out of a deeply meaningful Legal Marriage and beginning the process of planning my real wedding and with it many of my next life steps. 2025 is also Year of the Blog (as coined by my dear friend and collaborator Meg) and the timing couldn't be better.

In 2024, I took a wonderful class called Spectacle, Presence & Poetry which was the first time in my life that I've kept a daily analog journal. I am very easily pulled out of the present moment and into my head -- fixating on planning and anxiously drifting out of my body. The conversations we had and the journaling we did in our class helped cement how important writing can be in keeping the body on the ground. Moving at the speed of my hand, letting my thoughts flow, remembering what happened every day.

I'm blogging this year to help me hone presence. To capture my thoughts before they float away. To take myself, my dreams, and my ideas seriously while always knowing that I will change my mind. And to do it in public, with some real editing and thought -- bringing these ideas and report outs on my world to the Year of the Blog crew. I feel really excited to share with everyone, and learn about your worlds too. This is such a critical time for remembering that our worlds are connected and both bigger and smaller than they look.

Meg prompted us to set a timer for 3 min and write as many possible ideas for blog topics that we can think of. My ideas loosely fit into: "Tech and Society". "Gender" and "Spirituality." I'm not committed to these, but wanted to record some of the topics that I might write about to give you all (and myself) a sense of we might find on this blog:

• Queery-ing language including but not limited to:
  • Gender Affirming Care
  • Carl Sagan Jew
  • Spiritually Bankrupt
  • Finding Love in a Hopeless Place
• Kavannot, blessings, and other pieces of writing I do for my spiritual community and reflections on Torah and ritual.
• Connections between disparate sources ranging from pop songs, to books I'm reading to articles about the state of technology and anywhere in between. ²
• Thoughts on AI, what I mean when I say "building technology that should exist", and what I think is beautiful and important to build.
• If it feels right, I might share about some community facilitation I've done in the past few years.
• Reflects on public vs private life, and how I experience and interpret the iconic phrase Everybody Passes ³
• Things about life, gender, the endless process of growing etc...

I'm still feeling out what will be right to share publicly and what to keep private. I'm looking forward to this push to Work In Public ⁴ and meet this moment together. See you all soon!