🪻 Persian New Year Vibe Check: Life Updates & New Beginnings 🪻
New year indeed-- LOTS of life changes.
Norooz Pirooz, as they say! Thursday rung in the Spring Equinox and Persian New Year, and it was right on time— there are lots of updates and big changes in my life that I’m excited to share below. 👀
Before then, a few bookmarks for my free subscribers:
Maybe you’re at a crossroads? When you find yourself needing to make a decision, you might try this digital Fal’e Hafez— it mimics the Persian tradition of flipping through a book of poetry and landing on one at random that will dictate your fate or fortune.
I went a little crazy with the shopping— blame it on Norooz tradition— and have a positively shameful amount of things I’m returning at UPS today. I forced myself to keep only the truly FABULOUS things that I knew I’d use often— starting with these Vibi Venezia leopard print stunners and this East Coast tee that I saw
wear last summer and felt like it needed to be worn with denim shorts while I ride my bike alongside a hydrangea bush.- ate with this article about the Middle Ages trending (incredible sentence). I’m reading so much historical fiction these days, which I find super comforting as a coping mechanism in this political climate. (As in: there have always been unhinged, autocratic men hungry for power.) This also dovetails nicely with my obsession with the Throne of Glass series.
Now, onto the big life updates I’ve been keeping from you for a while (sorry!)…
I wrote in my recent letter about being obsessed with something about how incredible it feels to know that your next passion, obsession or interest is right around the corner— you just haven’t met it yet. At the top of the year, I had no idea I was going to go to 2 new places, much less in the next 60 days! (Scotland and Mexico City— two particularly amazing places to boot.)
But I’m talking much bigger than exciting travel— 2025 so far feels like a whirlwind of new developments that I had no idea were going to find me so fast.