💬 Thursday Thread: What did you love this year?
Best books, movies, podcasts, products... let's share it all
2025 is just days away, so let’s spend some time reflecting on the past year and some of your highlights. I recapped my own favorites earlier this week. It was definitely a year of very high highs and very low lows, and spending some time reflecting on what brought us joy is a good vibe to take into the new year.
👉 For today’s Thursday thread, here’s what I’d like to know:
What are your favorite books, movies, podcasts and products from the past year? We could all use your recommendations in the comments!
PS… This is my final post for 2024. I’ll be back on January 7th with a new podcast episode, more interviews with Firestarters, and more community conversations. Have a very safe and happy New Year.
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I just re-watched GIRLS and damn if it doesn't hold up. Favorite books were Friday Afternoon Club by Griffin Dunne, From Here to the Great Unknown by Lisa Marie Presley, and Sociopath by Patric Gagne. Music is totally age inappropriate: Suki Waterhouse, Charli XCX, Chappell Roan and Taylor (per Spotify).
Whenever I have needed a mental break this year I turn to my music. I either sit at my piano and play or I put my vinyls on my new record player I bought this yaer or play my favorite CD's. I also read three books this year. I haven't read a book in like 10 years. I read, Lead From the Outside by Stacy Abrams, The Joy of Politics by Amy Klobuchar and THe Hate U Give by Angie Thomas. All great books. And I think the most important thing, with the help of some guided meditation that I have gotten back into, was that I have accepted all my medical issues and decided that I was not going to let those issues bring me down and think that I had to give up my life and stop living. I realized that I have the power to overcome anything and fight through these issues. I may not recover from all of them completely but I can improve most of them and possibly overcome a few of them completely. SO, I am fighting through everyone of them. Physical therapy, testing, healthy eating, the guided meditation, and living. By living I mean going places that I love. I still travel down to DC every few months whenevfer the urge hits. It only takes my 2 1/2 hours to get there. Sometimes I go for the day and sometime I go overnight. I go for day trips in my own state to places I have always wanted to see and never have, even though I grew up here and have always found my way back. And now owning the childhood house I grew up in. Life is good now. You have to learn how to take your own power back, and I did that!