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Not much of an X-mas card™ - edition 2024

Thu, 27 Nov 2025 22:04:33 +0200

Hi,

It’s… been a year, yeah?

I don’t know what’s the past year been for you, and I’d love to read it you if you are willing to share. For myself, I know it was a year of realisations (aren’t they all lately?), of allowing myself to grieve a past me, and forgive her the mistakes we’ve made because we didn’t know any better, a year of learning how to tell myself yes and put myself first. Of learning how to forgive myself for not always being there for me, of learning that sometimes I am allowed to give up on things and people, actually. A resourceful year.

Not much of an X-mas card™ - the origin story

Wed, 02 Apr 2025 01:26:09 +0300

I keep meaning to write about why and how I started writing the not-much-of-an-xmas card, and since I promised myself to write more on here, maybe the time is now.

I started sending out the card â€” in its current form â€” back in 2018. During a period when I was celebrating Christmas in the lonely silence of an otherwise bustling with noise Italian dormitory.

The first card is simple â€“ mostly with the parts I had in my backpack every day and a scene photographed in front of a card I received from a loved one just in time.

Not much of an X-mas card™ - edition 2023

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 10:33:46 +0200

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Hi,

It’s… been a year. Again.

I’ve been thinking about this email, and what should it contain, and what should I send wishes for out into the universe for the better part of the last 3 months. And most of the time, I came empty handed.

I don’t know what to ask for, except for peace. I don’t know where to send my prayers to, except to anyone that would listen. And I don’t know how to keep on hoping for the better, and believing in the better nature of humanity, considering the state of the world right now. And yet, I do.

Not much of an X-mas card™ - edition 2022

Mon, 27 Nov 2023 10:33:46 +0200

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Hi,

I have no clue how yet another year has passed and where to even start with my wishes for the upcoming one. For myself, I know this has been a year of self-awareness and a reminder that it’s the little things that make the tables turn, and that a pause — even if an uninvited guest — is sometimes necessary to appreciate the things we miss in our haste.

Not much of an X-mas card™ - edition 2021

Sun, 27 Nov 2022 10:33:46 +0200

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Hi,

I look back at the year behind us and wonder how it rolled under my feet.

How all these minutes slipped between my fingers and it’s time for wishes again.

I wish you completeness. And the strength to bring everything you’ve started to an end.

I wish you satisfaction. From what is done, from what’s been started, even from what is to come.

I wish you resilience. And mindfulness of the knowledge that you have friends who won’t let you fall if you stumble.

Not much of an X-mas card™ - edition 2019

Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:33:46 +0200

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Hello there.

Here comes the time to look back at what we’ve done in the old year and wish ourselves some kindness for the next.

I wish you satisfaction. By youself, by others, even by your enemies.

I wish your opponents that will make you a better person. And friends to share the kindness with.

I wish you a year full of happiness, smiles and softness. A year in which you will often find yourself with glittering eyes and less often with wrinkled in worry eyebrows.

Not much of an X-mas card™ - edition 2018

Wed, 27 Nov 2019 10:33:46 +0200

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Hey there,

I have a few wishes for the coming year and I hope youâ€™d bear with me to the end.

I wish you crazy humor when the seriousness of everyday life is trying to poison you. Let it leave you breathless.

I wish you more anchors for your mind to return to when the winds test your resistances.

I wish you trips after which you will find yourself loving yourself and the world more.