Roy’s Sunday Letter for December 28, 2025
I wrote recently about our oak tree losing its beautiful fall leaves. Our wise friend Sandra responded, “the falling leaves remind us that fall is a time of letting go.” What might be a behavior or one part of life you do not wish to continue, to let go of and leave behind as 2025 nears end?
- Is there a decision or right choice you are ready to make as you enter 2026? Who are the right partners you want and need to join you to be successful as you and we enter 2026?
A calendar is helpful to plan, coordinate, and connect us together in 2026. Calendars can be paper, on our phones or digital device. A beneficial experience would be to turn the pages of your old 2025 calendar. Remembering the faces, people, events, happy moments and also sad or disappointing ones is one way of increasing the outcomes you desire. This is a quiet, even intimate activity…simply turning pages and recalling those special times.
- The blank 2026 calendar is an opportunity. Birthdays and special dates are recorded, even if in the ‘what if’ of pencil. Perhaps in April creating a new event or in October attending a conference or retreat for you or family. The days of our 2026 calendar will be turned pages all too quickly. The pencil markings are like pauses to slow us down, pay attention, be intentional as 2026 shines forth in all of its newness and brightness,
As 2026 fast approaches the words and feelings I hear and read, or those shared by friends, are more of dread, despair, or even fear more than joy, wonder, or anticipated achievements. One way to avoid being trapped within these words and feelings is spreading a sense of wonder among circles of friends. We all absorb difficult times…and yet, encouraging each other to continue with hope and even joy seems to be the best balance. This is what works for me. What works best for you?
Roy, turning the page, 2026 is before us all!
I spent the last week with family in Santa Fe, I was refreshed by their positive attitude concerning the future. They have a lovely new home and such joy about living each day. There are days I become mired in what is going on in the world and my inabilities to change so many things but I was reminded in the beauty of the mountains that as long as possible I can change my outlook and enjoy my life as it is. 2026 is a clean slate let’s write on it with love, kindness and peace within ourselves. All of us have the same clean slate, you have encouraged me to write well.
Wow! Perfect words for me on this last Sunday of 2025 with many changes in the works for 2026. Thanks for the reminders of past and present, fears and excitement, but knowing all along you have brought community to us all. Happy New Year Roy and Beth.
And, the powerful part is we do so together……We will not be divided or separated.
Thanks for the updated as you add more to your daily life than bridge…..RB
Agree Roy. An important time of endings and beginnings deserving of careful thought and contemplation. And the pages of the calendar turn much too quickly as we age I find.
Have a wonderful 2026!!
I stopped (entirely) watching TV news in 2010. We had started placing professional canines in the investigation and prosecution of crime and I heard first hand stories from our Special Victims Advocates who help vulnerable victims in that process. I realized that if I steeped my life in all the negativity that TV news (and now print/digital) represented I would not have the space to hold a different possibility and a more hopeful paradigm. Being mindful of our intake and our saturation of negativity can provide a key to turning away from that which takes us down. Turn towards the positive and make a space for miracles to sprinkle through each day. Like visiting you and Beth—still savoring our time together. X/O
Dear forever friend….
Your challenges large, numerous, and growing
We pay attention to the news but more on the Monks, walking each step no with thousands following.
You and the 4 legged ones always present with us as we slide from 2025 to 26.
r and B
Roy,
I think it best if we look on the future, not as worried but as concerned. Often, in tense situations, my daughters will ask me if I am worried:”. No, I say, I am concerned”.
Worrying seems to get us into a state of rumination, where the upper most thing on our mind is the condition or incident, leaving little room for problem solving. Concern, on the other hand, gives us the opportunity to look at an event or situation in depth and not get caught up in rumination, therefore better able to problem solve.
As for our future and the future of our great nation, I am concerned, but not worried. Our Nation has been through defining struggles and bitter disputes in the past and through the will of many has been able to right itself after turmoil. This is not without the sacrifice of many and hardships that leave scars.
It is times such as these that we must be concerned and figure ways to problem solve which will get us back on the track to bettering ourselves.
In TX we make “concern” more complicated by adding guns a form of communication.
I do respond well to concerned and will this lower stress level to a future SL. RB
Good words about Concern, a proactive stance.
WE pay more attention to the Monks than empty suit and soul donald.
thoughts of you and all of family as we slide from 2025 to 26.
we do so together,,,,,,,,
Happy New Year Roy and Beth! Thank you for inspiring others with your writings.
I’m letting go of fear in 2025 and renewing faith and gratitude in 2026.
Billie, we do nd be all that by holding hands, freely giving encouragement and hope, leading to joy.
We do not face all of our tomorrows alone……so wonderfulave you nearby….””
Rpy