Wednesday, December 31, 2025
Goodbye to You, 2025!
Hello, everyone and happy New Year’s Eve. As we kick 2025 to the curb, I’m not going to bemoan what an utter disaster it’s been… (Although I guess I just did.) Nor am I going to sing the praises of what a great and glorious thing 2026 will be… (Because any thinking person should be able to see that it will take at least a decade to fix what has been destroyed during even half of this year.) I guess I just bemoaned again…
What I am going to do is pledge positivity through imagination for the New Year. My intention is that at least once a week, I will create an image that helps us imagine ourselves into a wondrous place.
We don’t have to see the entire highway. When one is driving at night, the car’s headlights only show 350 to 400 feet ahead. Yet we can drive hundreds and hundreds of miles, as long as those lights keep shining. Turn on the light of imagination to see as much as you can. You might find that you can keep seeing a little more, and then a little more.
Open the doors of imagination to all the extraordinary vistas we can achieve in reality, when we let imagination take flight.
In 2026, do not underestimate the importance of imagination. It’s more than frilly, frufru, fantasy — it is valuable. Imagination is essential. Our imaginations, along with our inner speech today, will create tomorrow’s facts.
By that, I do not mean new age philosophy, or “alternative facts,” or “fake news,” or fictional delusions. I mean like attracts like, so we have to be it to achieve it — and that starts in the imagination. If the mind if bursting with negativity inside, then the outside will be the same. So, horsefeathers! Let’s imagine something wondrous.
“(Wo)Man must learn to believe in that which he does not, at the moment, see in order to grant himself that which he desires to have.”
― Imagination Creates Reality
“What you think, so you will become,” Napoleon Hill
” You become what you believe, ” Oprah Winfrey
“You are what you think. So, just think big, believe big, act big.” Andrew Carnegie
“What you think you become.” Buddha
“Be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Romans 12:2
For instance, the collage/composite I made for the fantasy world of Dead of Winter shows companionship, cooperation, as well as beauty. This is my “Wondrous World” image to conclude 2025. Expect new wonders in 2026.
Happy New Year — and hugs!
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Dead of Winter Omnibus: All the Journeys
Yes, here’s the obligatory shameless self-promotion, along with something about why you might want to spend some of your time in this particular wondrous world:
Emlyn is only twelve, but the fanatic Brethren think she’s a threat, an abomination. Why? Emlyn has a talent — she can see ghosts.
The Brethren have taken over Emlyn’s homeland, took away women’s rights, and forbade most learning. All beliefs but theirs are heresy. Her family betrays her to the Brethren when she hears the supernatural warning, “Winter is coming!”
Now Emlyn and her teacher are on the run. They meet and join with travelers belonging to the Deae Matres — a society of intelligent women who seek out and preserve knowledge. Emlyn visits new lands with customs that amaze her. But it isn’t fun and games. She has a dire task. The entire world is at risk. The Veil between the worlds of the living and dead has been torn apart by evil nightwalker, Arawn. He seeks revenge on the Society of Deae Matres for imprisoning him beyond the Veil in the Realm of the Dead.
As the Veil deteriorates, chaos ensues when the dead cross into the living world. Even if Emlyn manages to outrun the Brethren, how can she escape Arawn? Yet she has to confront the nightwalker and restore the Veil.
This richly detailed “high” fantasy will appeal to fans of Ursula Le Guin, Margaret Atwood, and Terry Brooks.
Universal Purchase link (e-book only): relinks.me/B0FP9XL46J
YouTube (Book trailers and song covers):
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoM-z7_iH5t2_7aNpy3vG-Q
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Happy New Year Teagan, all the beest for ’26!
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