New Year's Eve Rituals with Alicia

Beloved,

I wanted to do something different this year as we close this year and welcome a new one. This is my first New Year’s Eve where I spend it alone. Part of me feels sad about that, the other side of me is excited about what it all means. I am in a new home, with a new look, in a new city, without a phone—like everything feels different and while this excites me it also makes me a bit nervous. Life is exactly like this. We can be mourning one moment and laughing the next.

To commemorate and honor this new beginning I am planning a private ritual this Saturday for New Year’s Eve and wanted to invite you. I will who you how I close cycles, honor my dead, prepare my home and ready myself for new beginnings. Below is a list of things to bring to…