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Ambivalence & resistance

Ambivalence & resistance

The emotional currents of welcoming a new year

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Bethaney Wilkinson
Dec 31, 2024
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A scene from the Audubon Center Boardwalk at the Francis Beidler Forest Sanctuary, the world’s oldest cypress-tupelo swamp forest. Visited in Dec. 2024.

An ambivalence has hovered overhead as I’ve contemplated what to write on the eve of this new year.

I’ve felt a strange resistance to the coming change, all the while knowing that January 1st will be her…

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