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What I like best about the New Year is that it's a collective, public acknowledgement that we can aspire to change for the better. We can turn things around. My resolutions for next year aren’t especially relevant to this column (but if you're interested—they are to read the Bhagavad Gita and write a song), but I am especially tuned into the advent of personal transformation—the passionately, frighteningly, volatile nature of what it is that “I Am.”
If we probe deeper into this concept, we notice that there isn’t necessarily something particularly magic about this one spot on the earth’s slingshot around the sun—in fact, every moment is an opportunity for total transformation. The present may be unfathomably infinitesimal, but it is all we have. A brilliant gift. To abuse a cliché, “That’s why they call it the present!” The impossible becomes possible again. The status quo is just as much an illusion as any of our wildest hopes. So why not go for it?
Bikewinter Film Festival
Sunday, January 3, 2:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Facets Multimedia. 1517 W. Fullerton, Chicago
Chicago Bike Winter has offered a venue to “nurse
your New Year’s hangover with your bike-brethren and sistren” at the Bikewinter Film Fest. On offer will be “a pallette of interesting and entertaining 2-wheeled cinema fare, a mix of acclaimed feature films and locally produced shorts.” Admission is free, donations will benefit the bikewinter.org effort after venue costs.
Going Green for Me and Baby to Be
Thursday, January 7, 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m.
Bellybum Boutique, 4347 N. Lincoln Ave., Chicago
Bellybum and The Green Mama LLC offer a four-part workshop on healthier, greener pre-baby preparation. Topics include skincare, label reading, greener food choices, food and fertility, greener cleaning, removing toxins, breastfeeding and green diapering. Resource workbook is included, and “sustainable snacks” will be provided. Registration is $200 per couple.
Logan Square Farmers Market
Sundays in January 10, 17, 24, 31, 10:00 a.m.–2:00 p.m.
Congress Theater, 2135 N. Milwaukee Ave., Chicago
Chosen by the Trib as “Chicago’s Coolest Farmers’
