30/12/2025
The end of this year doesn’t feel tidy. Not relief, or sadness, just shaped by things we didn’t really get to choose.
If you’re an expat, that shows up in small ways: making your own rødkål, blending traditions that don’t quite belong anywhere, or figuring out whether visiting family is worth the flight costs.
One of our small anchors this season was seeing The Julekalender in Tivoli. It’s a family favourite, partly because our family is mixed, and partly because it gets what it’s like to live between cultures, with all the humour, misunderstandings, and little compromises that come with it.
Poet Michael Symmons Roberts wrote in his christmas poem this year:
“The world still cries war, and acts on it.”
It’s blunt and so true about world politics right now. But it’s also about light: being able to see clearly, care, and keep going without collapsing.
As the year ends, I’m wishing you a bit of mental space, some moments of clarity, and a little steadiness wherever you are.
See you in 2026
…continuing ‘the work’
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The Julekalender was presented by
Poem is called ‘Illuminations’ and I heard it on Documentary podcast
Photo taken by my son in Borneo