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Visualizing the Past 12 Months

Last week, I got the idea to create a messy physical review of my year.
It's a mostly straightforward piece: each month is represented by a different color, the months that felt longer take up more space than the other ones, and I marked my events, trips, loved ones' 'wins' and mundane happenings with little doodles and notes in the approximate points on the months when they happened.

I used my phone gallery to remember everything from when we were preparing for my sister's first bazaar to when I tried a new food combination (I highly recommend trying guacamole sauce with fir fir, whenever you can!).

I feel like there were several months this year when I moved around like an NPC character, and some pictures reminded me of things I didn't want to recall.
But I came out of this 'exercise' with a few notes that would be fresh in my mind as we barge into yet another January.

—w