At some point everything comes to an end. This time is the year 2025. It has been huge. I was sitting in Blue Note Jazz Club in New York last night, listening to the virtuoso trumpet sounds and thinking about the year that is about to end. And what a year it was! It was long, it was busy, it has brought a lot of changes. I have lost my sense of invincibility. I have gone through all my therapies and here I am – reborn so to speak, renewed and hopefully redeemed and in complete remission. Hopefully for years to come. Despite all the “fun” stuff – port, chemo, surgeries, and recoveries there was a lot of fun stuff – poppies, Moonstone beach, San Francisco, Chicago, and finally New York. Long distances covered, hair lost and regrown, new younger breasts still getting to their perfection, many plans for the future. However, the most important thing was – I have friends, people whom I love and those who love me back. I have friends with whom I have not been in touch for dozens of years and picked up where I have left and as if we have never been apart. There were others with whom that precious comfort level was irrevocably lost but many more of those who were ready to come at my beck and call, support me in so many different ways, and always there for me. Through sick and sin (or thick and thin :))) is not only in the marriage vows. Friendship and family and the pillars of our being. I am starting 2026 with a lot of hope and welcome better future – more trips, more seeing friends while we want and can, more love and warmth. To everyone with lots of gratitude and best wishes! Happy New Year!