A checklist for 2025:

• check titers / re-up on shots against mumps, measles, rubella

• tell people the HPV vaccine a) saves lives b) is recommended for folks ages 9 - 45

• know who your people are, and know who consider you to be theirs

• know what your lines are and how you will know if you cross them

• be intolerant of time-grifters

• if it sounds too good to be true, check. if it sounds too awful to be real, check. if it sounds exactly as plausible as everything else has, check

• support artists and not just “the arts”

• preserve the media you want to continue to watch / read / listen to

• pay for the media you want to continue to watch / read / listen to

• find out who’s doing the most useful work locally and give them slightly more than you feel like you can afford

• make time for downtime

• learn something new with new people

• reuse more than you recycle

  Attribution

  Whither should I fly?
   I have done no harm. But I remember now
   I am in this earthly world, where to do harm
   Is often laudable, to do good sometime
   Accounted dangerous folly. Why then, alas,
   Do I put up that womanly defense
   To say I have done no harm?
  
  [Enter Murderers]
  
  — from Lady MacDuff’s speech in Macbeth by William Shakespeare