The Morning: The year ahead
There's an empty calendar spread out before us. What meaning will we give to it? View in browser | nytimes.com January 4, 2025 By Melissa Kirsch Good morning. The new year is spread out ahead of us, an empty calendar. What meaning will we give to it? María Jesús Contreras Clock work Four days into the year and it's all possibility right now. You have an idea of how things will go — what you're looking forward to, what's going to be challenging — but you're working off archival material. Memory and experience, educated guesses. "2025 is going to be very difficult for me," a friend said matter-of-factly the other night, before ticking off all the things she had to do this year: taking her business to a new stage, considering a move. To me, these things sounded exciting, interesting — the fascinating content of someone else's life. We're all sitting here with the same year's worth of days in front of us now, the same calendar. What activities an...
