Ringing In 2026: A Boomer’s Time‑Warped Wonder

Bringing In 2026: A Boomer’s Time‑Warped Wonder

by Darrell Griffin, president of PureAudacity.com

There’s a strange kind of magic in watching the calendar flip from 2025 to 2026 when you’re 73 and still carrying a little Woodstock in your bones. It’s not nostalgia exactly—more like standing on a mountaintop you never planned to climb, wind in your hair, wondering how the view got so wide.

At this age, New Year’s Eve isn’t about resolutions or reinvention. It’s about recognition. You look back at the decades—tie‑dye summers, protest marches, mixtapes, heartbreaks, reinventions—and realize you’ve lived through enough “new eras” to fill a museum wing. And yet, somehow, the turning of the year still sparks that same flicker of rebellion: What if the best chapter hasn’t happened yet?

There’s audacity in aging like this. In refusing to shrink. In waking up on January 1st with sore knees but an unshaken belief that life is still wild, still weird, still worth showing up for. You stretch, sip your coffee, and feel the hum of possibility—quieter than it used to be, but deeper.

Watching 2025 become 2026 isn’t a reminder of time slipping away. It’s proof you’re still here, still curious, still dancing to a rhythm the world can’t quite predict.

And honestly? That feels pretty groovy.