A Year in Review: Hope
“Dear December 2024 Me,
I know you can’t imagine getting out of bed some days. Your dad’s been gone four months…”
A letter to herself, written a year after her father’s death. Yentli looks back at the person she was in December 2024 — four months into grief, unsure how to keep going — and tells her what the year ahead held: ten conferences, a Distinguished Alumni Award, a library named after her dad, a trip to Belgium, a published essay, a year of fighting. And hope. Not because everything got easier, but because she chose to keep going anyway.