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Goodbye, 2025
Photo-a-month challenge wrap
2025 did not prepare many of us for what was ahead in 2026. I don’t know how it could. Here in Minnesota, the month of January has felt like a year.
Minneapolis artist José Luis Fitch Jiménez has had an art installation entitled Artivism at the college where I work for the majority of October and November. While most of the artwork has now been taken down for the next installation, in a quiet hallway outside of my office, a series of Fitch’s paintings labeled Immigrant: Power by Culture, Power by Dreams, Power by Growth, Power by Hope, Power by Family, Power by Resilience, and Power by Vision remain.
If only the broader community understood and valued this.
But here we are.
Surprisingly, for me, hope still remains. I’m grateful for the photo-a-month challenge running throughout January. I found myself happy to hide away in your 2025 photo summaries.
Collectively in 2025, we published a book, said goodbye to family members (feline and human), cheered on our successful designer daughter, worked magic in the garden, moved from one home to another, traveled, snapped a ton of wildlife shots, and some of us changed jobs.
