Devine Lu Linvega@neauoire@merveilles.town
It feels a little surreal now to look back on ten years of living on the water. In my memory, all these sunsets blur into one unending dusk, at times overcast, but we've somehow weathered every storm, learning new things along the way. When all is accounted for, I feel so fortunate to have had the chance to do all this, meet all these fantastic people, go to all these fascinating places.
You know what else is lucky? That one of the brightest star visible from the northern hemisphere, Polaris, sits almost perfectly at the apex of the celestial dome, the layout of the stars that seem to us immobile on earth. When you scan the nightsky for the little dipper and find the end of its handle, this star that hardly moves at all, is straight up above the earth. I never truly appreciated this until now and I can't think of any piece of knowledge that has so deeply touched me.
Some of the best things that happened to me this year were anchoring in Ucluelet's smoky, jade colored water while hummingbirds swarmed around us pecking at the colorful halyards with their tiny beaks, watching the sunset barefoot sitting on driftwood, rowing to our friend's ship window before sunrise to pick up warm banana bread, stepping into a new pair of inline skates, finally making the time to implement Lisp for Uxn, getting lost in the mountains of the Austrian countryside and asking someone where the harbor is.
We don't have any plans for the next year yet, so I guess we'll just have to see!
For the year of 2025, Donna Tartt's The Secret History, was my favourite book. Robert Eggers's Nosferatu was my favourite movie. Lorna Shore's latest was my favourite album.
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