Your brain is hard-wired to avoid exercise. Here's why
https://www.sciencefocus.com/comment/exercise-brain
Welcome to 2025! New year, new you, and all that guff.
But before your resolutions quickly peter out, read this Science Focus piece, by me, about why something ostensibly good for us is often so off putting.
Lunar new years eve tonight. It’s the first time in a long time that I will probably spend it alone at home. I usually like to celebrate these “turnings of the seasons” but this year hits differently.
two thoughts: 1. The world is in a state of flux, it feels unstable. 2. This year I submit my thesis. 2025 has hard work vibes #CNY #LNY #NewYear
SLOW DOWN. LISTEN.
This week I’m giving away five personalized guided meditations—because slowing down to listen to your inner voice is the most effective way to receive what this life offers you.
*The giveaway starts today January 15, 2025 at 12pm Pacific time and runs until noon, January 22, 2025.
https://kingsumo.com/g/m2rod51/win-a-personal-guided-meditation
2025 is here, like it or not! So what are you most hopeful for in this new year?
https://ask.metafilter.com/383863/What-gives-you-hope-for-the-future-in-2025
I think our bird of the year for 2025 should be the water rail. They are small and adorable and they live in ditches making horrible yelling noises at the world and I think that's an energy that we can all get behind this year.
#NewYear , new calendar!
got this lovely calendar from @Coreyartus , go show him some love!
I'm getting ready for Chinese New Year 2025 with some SNAKE cups!!! This has been an adventure because the shape of a snake pushed me out of the normal way I compose a surface design...lets hope 2025 is full of creative breakthroughs for all of us!!!
*work in progress--still plenty of carving to go before they go into the kiln
A hand full of art calendars left :) Grab one for 2025:
https://www.johannaforster.com/product-page/kopie-von-fuck-yeah-calendar-2025
I'm in a post-holiday funk and have no desire to write or take photos. January is always a bluesy time of year. #NewYear
Most of my kids went back to school today, including my oldest that I just dropped off at the airport.
On the way back I kept thinking about the appropriate well wishes for you and the new year. Everything I could think of felt trite or pompous.
("But Matt, when has that ever stopped you before-")
I guess I'll say let's take this one moment at a time. Let's seek and grow joy where we find it, and not be disappointed if progress must come in fits and starts rather than all at once. #newYear
Happy New Year Everyone! 
.Get ready to #explore a stunning abandoned palace in #Poland 
this Saturday in my first new website post of 2025!
#EarlyAccess is now live on my #Patreon!
Do you enjoy my #photography and articles? Join to supply coffee to fuel my adventures, keep the film rolling in my old cameras, and chip in to cover my website/software fees 
Head over to https://www.patreon.com/posts/early-access-of-119414653 to learn more about my amazing tiered benefits!
I couldn’t bear to let all the rainwater slip away from the roof of the tent I left it there,pooled and glistening so the little birds could quench their thirst In a world where everything seems to vanish even the smallest act of kindness feels like a desperate grasp at holding onto something pure something that still matters.Watching the birds drink from that fragile pool I felt a fleeting moment of peace amid the storm as if
#palestine #war #gaza #newyear
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https://gofund.me/6d3bce17
Happy first #SkyproSunday of the #NewYear! Make it count, be proud!
#MutualAid #MutualAidRequest #HelpFolksLive #HelpFolksLive2025 #MastodonForHarris #Mastodon4Harris #TransCrowdfund #Crowdfund #TopSurgery #TopSurgeryCrowdfund #DisabledCrowdfund #Mazeldon do direct tzedakah, et cetera.
tonight's update:
as well as the very generous gift by the anonymous person who gave me the pens, a friend of mine was able to toss us $100, and we need to be ramping up to top surgery whereas that has to go to immediate needs; we're buying home pedicure ish stuff supplies because it's literally a health matter and if I want to avoid going to the podiatrist, which is much more like torture, I need to do a better job at taking care of my feet. we're buying cat food, as always, cat litter, as always. etc etc.
so we have a goal of $1000 or more set aside for my top surgery fund, to fund food while I'm in the hospital (delivery because my spouse also doesn't drive) because I cannot eat much of the hospital foods; to fund new items of clothing because I don't have much that opens in the front that I'll be able to wear in the time that it takes to get back to being able to lift my arms above my head enough.
we have a tonne of needs and if I explained everything that giving to us goes to I would be here all day and you'd get disinterested from reading, but to stay afloat through January and February we'll need another $500, not taken out of the RV sale funds, which are all earmarked to pay debts and big expenses that we can't crowdfund on here.
so let's talk about #NewYearsEve #NYE #NewYear instead. all that we want for some sort of new year resolution stuff is to be able to have somefinancial stability, and y'all's generosity is the only way we're going to get there.
please help if you can. one, two, five dollars helps just as much as bigger donations if not more, and share if you can't, we love people who get it shared too. link to this post or better yet copy our payment info and write your own post about who I am online and what we need.
top surgery fund (comment 'top surgery') $0/$1000
general $100/$600
CashApp: $ ceahhettan (will say a bunch of muppets)
Venmo: @ californiummm (will say dror lieb, my Hebrew name)
ask for PayPal/Zelle.
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
#NewYear #HappyNewYear #Dreams
