In lieu of resolutions, actions.

Wash your makeup brushes.

Set up a recurring donation to a local food or diaper bank.

Join a community board.

Assign a ‘payable on death’ beneficiary on your financial accounts.

Check your voter registration.

Understand compound interest.

Talk to the kids in your life about Roblox and other virtual gaming platforms.

Research living wills and digital estate planning.

Take more walks.

Don’t let the bastards win.

Attribution

Let each word carry what it says.
Let it be like the tremor that sustains it.
Let it maintain itself like a heartbeat.

I may not put forward ornate lies not apply doubtful ink nor add shine to what is.
This obliges me to hear myself. But we’re here to tell the truth.
Let’s be real.
I want terrifying exactitudes.

— from Ars Poetica by Rafael Cadenas translation by Rowena Hill