Happy New December!

Infinite gratitude continues!

Dear friends,

It’s a new month!
And you know what that means (or you’re about to!):
It’s time for me to wish you a happy new month! So, happy new month!

1) THE LAST HAPPY NEW MONTH OF THE YEAR CAN YOU BELIEVE IT!

It begins. It ends.
In between, it happens now.
Happy Last New Month!

I’ve learned from the tradition of the Stoics about the concept of “last time meditations,” which involves thinking about the fact that whatever we’re doing, we could be doing for the last time.

There will be a last time in this life for everything… A last time talking on a landline phone. A last time visiting a specific restaurant. A last time speaking to a particular loved one. A last time getting a haircut. A last time seeing a movie. A last time thinking about all the things that will happen for the last time.

The idea is that it can help us appreciate the thing, because if it’s the last time (which it might be), let’s squeeze all the enjoyment juice out of it that we can. Let’s be present with it. Let’s be here. Want to be here? Great news, you are!

So I’m glad that you’re here for this, the actual very last Happy New Month message (of the year! Don’t worry, Old Anthropomorphized Year Person will be a baby again soon, almost certainly)!

Thank you for being here!
Happy New Year!
Happy This Moment!

2) “ENOUGH WITH THE GRATITUDE ALREADY” JKJKJK NEVER ENOUGH!

Enough gratitude?
What a foreign attitude!
Gratitude’s rad, dude.

Last month, there was a gratitude-based holiday in the US, so I talked about gratitude.

Also, I released my new special “Rini” which I am super grateful for, named for and created with my wonderful partner Rini who I am ALSO super grateful for, so I talked some more about gratitude.

I even sent out my end-of-year infinite gratitude message last month as well. SO MUCH GRATITUDE.

And yet, I still find some gratitude remains.
I’m grateful for all the gratitude I experience, and with that, there’s even more gratitude.

Thank you for being a source of it and for being a receiver of it.

PS Here’s my impression of Tony the Tiger around this time of year:
“They’re GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRatitude!”
(He doesn’t totally make sense.)

3) CAN YOU BELIEVE SOME PEOPLE ARE PUTTING UP THEIR CHRISTMAS LIGHTS FOR NEXT YEAR ALREADY?

Does that joke make sense? Because people keep putting up their lights earlier and earlier (before Thanksgiving, before Halloween, before 4th of July), so imagine someone who puts their holiday lights up in December of 2025 but those lights are for December of 2026. Just imagine! Or don’t, I did it for you!

Now...

You may not be a Christmas person.
You may not be a Hanukkah person.
You may not be a Chanukkah person.
You may not be a Kwanzaa person.
You may not be a Bodhi Day person.
You may not be a Pancha Ganapati person.
You may not be a Pagan celebration person.
You may not be a חֲנוּכָּה‎ person.
You may not be a holiday person at all.

But you are almost certainly a person of SOME kind! (What kind? The YOU-kind!)
And so to YOU I say Happy YOU-tide Season!
Merry YOU-mas! Happy ChanYOUkkah!
And so forth and YOU on!
Happy All-the-Days!
To YOU!

In my hemisphere, it is getting colder and darker, hibernation time!
Whatever the weather, I hope there is warmth and light inside you, wherever you live, wherever you are, whatever you’re experiencing.
(Except at night when I hope it’s dark so you can sleep.)

I am grateful for you.
Merry NOW to you.
Happy New Month!

Thanks and love, all.
See you next now!