Thank You WordPress Community: A Year in Review

As I reflect on the year about to end, I would like to thank everyone on WordPress. Your posts have enlightened and encouraged me.

Each of us are gifted in our own way, as First Corinthians 7:7 has stated. We share our experiences, ideas, and encouragement. This helps each other to heal and to grow. It allows us to move forward, as Corinthians 14:26 states. I am grateful and appreciative. I especially thank a few of you. Your posts have educated me. They have encouraged me and brought tears of laughter to my eyes.

• Ms. Angera Muses, whose historical posts on IDEA NEEDS COLLECTIVE THOUGHTS, DON’T TELL THEM, SHOW THEM, ALWAYS A WAY IF YOU ARE COMMITTED, offer encouragement. They inspire you to move forward, believing in yourself and your dreams despite others’ negative opinions. Thank you.
• Mr. Mitch Teemely, whose posts of encouragement and laughter from life experiences, uplifted my days. Thank you.
• Mr. Sebastian Stead, whose photographs have taken me to places I never thought of being. Thank you.
• Ms. Grace Blakiston, whose personal shares move me to reflect on my own family gatherings and love affairs. Thank you.
• Lastly, to those who contributed to how to add new add-ons, and better use of WordPress. Thank you.

As I look at the time remaining before the start of a new year. The clock on the desk also needs to be set to reflect the change of the season. It reminds me that as humans, we too must reset. We need to reset our minds on how we will approach and perform in the new year.

There’s so much uncertainty. Uncertainty of wars, people’s mental state to adapt, unaffordable housing, high cost of food, and scarcity of jobs. These uncertainties have made me fearful. They do anxiously as I prepare to face a new year. The year is beginning more advanced than the previous one. I do wonder what disastrous effect the good intention of AI creation will have on humanity.

Time keeps on ticking, and it moves forward. Very soon, you and I will welcome the beginning of a new chapter of twelve. This is in a book of three hundred and sixty-five days. My wish is to be here with everyone. We will continue to encourage, enlighten, and uplift one another.

To everything there is a season. There is a time to every purpose under the heaven. A time to be born, and a time to die. A time to plant, and a time to reap.

                                –Old Testament, Ecclesiastes, 3:1-8

Time goes, you say? Ah no!
Alas, Time stays, we go.
-Austin Dobson, The Paradox of Time

Catch then, oh catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies!
Life’s a short Summer, man a flower;
He dies—alas! How soon he dies.
-Samuel Johnson, Winter: An Ode

Alas! How swift the moments fly!
How flash the years along!
Scarce here, yet gone already by,
The burden of a song.
Observe childhood, youth, and manhood pass. Witness age with a furrowed brow. Time was—Time shall be. Drain the glass. But where in Time is now?
-John Quincy Adams, The Hourglass.

To everyone, Happy New Year 2026!