Freeman’s Holiday Letter 2025 and 2024 (haha!)

Greetings Beloved Family and Friends,

May this letter find you and your loved ones healthy, peaceful, and full of joy.

Still living with my parents in Lakeville, Minnesota. Mom stays busy with her book club, golf club, weekly volunteering for Mission Outpost (which gives food, clothes, and other resources to those in need) and managing the household. Dad stays busy visiting his cousin Gil on most weeks, reading, golfing, skiing, motorcycling, doing yard work, putting together puzzles, and watching Itchy Boots, who films her worldwide motorcycle travels and puts them on YouTube.

I stay busy meditating, reading, dancing, listening to podcasts, hosting friends, talking to friends on the phone, sunbathing, doing yard work, shoveling snow, and facilitating an online Zoom meditation and Community Heart Share on Tuesday nights at 6:15 PM with the Boundless Love Project. Feel free to email me for the link if you would like to join us.

This year I overcame my fears, and felt very blessed and grateful to do two 10-day-long, at-home, solo meditation retreats. I used to do these in community at retreat centers, and feared I lacked the energy, willpower, and discipline to do them on my own. Thankfully, my spirit guides rallied to my aid and made them easy, delightful, and inspiring to do. The first retreat in April felt like a warm homecoming, so I did a second retreat in September when my folks were on vacation visiting friends for a Ghana reunion and going to my nephew’s wedding.

Yeah, I didn’t go. :( Still sensitive to electricity and radio frequencies. As the electropollution on roads and freeways, in buildings and homes, and even at beaches and parks(!!) continues to dramatically increase, leaving the house makes me sick, depressed, confused, and exhausted. So, until the body heals, I mostly stay at home.

The big project, which took all of 2025, was foiling the entire basement so I would have more space to live in that is almost-free of radio frequencies. To my delight and appreciation, 23 friends and family members helped me complete the project. So grateful for all of the love and support. <3  

I hope that 2026 will be the year that Source heals me. Please send me loving and healing energy, or offer prayers to the Higher Power of your understanding, for this to happen. Thank you!

In August, I took this short quiz and realized I had an addiction to Netflix, YouTube, Instagram, and similar platforms. I immediately started attending online meetings of Internet and Technology Addicts Anonymous, and with their support, have been able to maintain longer and longer periods of sobriety. If you think you might have a problem with tech addiction as well, I would be happy to talk with you, or join you for an online ITAA meeting.

Wishing you and your loved ones boundless love, health, and happiness, as well as success in all of your efforts to make our communities and world more kind, sustainable, and peaceful so that all life may thrive.

Love and Laughter,

Freeman

P.S. Here is a book, some podcasts, and documentaries that I enjoyed this year, and recommend:

Book

• Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words (Use the link to access free print, digital, and audio versions of the book.)

AUDIO

• My Dad’s 90-minute tape-recorded interview for the Library of Congress Veterans History Project regarding his service as a doctor on the front lines during the Vietnam War. Click the link to listen to:

Side 1

Side 2

• The Other Side NDE  

• Near Death Experiences by T&H Afterlife  

• The Telepathy Tapes

 Documentaries

• The Animal Communicator   

• Gary Wilson’s TEDx Talk   

• The Shark Whisperer (on Netflix)

P.P.S. Also, I never got my 2024 holiday letter out, so I finally finished it up, and it is below. LOL. Also, 2026 is the year I intend to simplify, streamline, and declutter my life so I can do things like this holiday card in a timely manner. (When that happens, it will be another miracle in itself! Haha)

2024 Holiday Letter (Better late than never, I hope!)

Greetings Beloved Friends,

Wishing you and your loved ones never-ending peace, joy, health, ease, and success.

Here is my annual letter for 2024. (One day, I hope to get it out by the end of December, like most everyone else - haha!)

2024 saw me continue my career as an unpaid professional rester (Ha!). I take periodic breaks from the grind of lying in bed to facilitate group meditations with the Boundless Love Project, socialize, and keep myself hydrated, fed, and — if I’m up for it —clean! Huge shout out to my parents for letting me live with them! (Applause!)

Below are the year’s highlights in pictures and videos.

2024 in Pictures and Videos

On February 1st, Yoga and I went to the Minneapolis Institute of Arts and the St. Paul Conservatory. During the Spring and Summer, we regularly got together to hike at Theodore Wirth Park in Minneapolis too. The hood and fabric I wear on my head shields some Radio Frequencies and allows me more freedom to go to a few public places that have limited Radio Frequency pollution at times when there are few people present.

On a weekend in February, Starshine (in pink) invited us all up to her cabin up north for a weekend of socializing, sauna, and Community Heart Share. I am so thankful that my friends are wiling to accommodate my body’s needs so I can attend events like this. They avoided bringing smart and WiFi tech, turned off routers, powering down their phones, shut off power to the rooms that I slept in, and more so I could attend. How awesome is that to have such supportive friends!!

I did a lot of polar plunges last year, and several friends joined me for them. Cold exposure helps my body have more energy, motivation, and a clearer mind.

But on a very cold, windy day in March, it turned out to be too much for me. My blood pressure dropped to the point that I fainted while driving home. The SUV veered off the road, ran over several bushes and small trees, and came to a stop when it hit a larger tree. I was driving my dad’s SUV and it was totaled. Thankfully, no humans or animals were injured. Huge thanks to my parents for being so supportive of me, and so forgiving of me destroying their car.

Since then, I have done Matrix Repatterning to help with the aftereffects of the crash. I also now have more safeguards around polar plunging. I still do them, because the health benefits make it so worthwhile.

Loneliness is a huge problem for many of us with chronic illness. My friend Angie (black shirt) developed long-COVID, and she moved in to our home on March 30th so we could offer each other companionship and mutual support. She lived with us for several months and we had fun going to the beach, lying in the sun, watching shows, and just being friends. In this picture, Lisa and Natalie came over to visit us.

During Ramadan, I prepared an iftar (the meal that breaks the daily fast after sunset) on April 5th for Yoga, who is Muslim. On the 6th, I woke up around 4 AM to prepare suhur (the meal before sunrise) which Yoga is eating in the picture above.

On May 10th. Leah and I went for a hike at Lebanon Hills. We get together a few times a year to hang out, but it usually turns into peer therapy sessions. Haha. The mask and goggles grant me the freedom to go outside during my spring and fall allergy seasons.

On August 10th, I attended the bon voyage party for my dear friends Paula (in black), Nathan (in shorts), and Hildie (in dress) who moved to Portugal in search of safe schools and a more sane society.

Before they left, they asked me to watch over their three-person infrared sauna. This gets lot of use by friends, family, and me.

On August 11th there was an outdoor dance in a park with tons of friends — pure ecstasy! I decided I would start the dance without my allergy mask and goggles until I started to feel the beginning of my symptoms. They never arrived! This was my first allergy-free fall in decades! In the picture, we are hanging out being silly after the dance.

On August 22, Arlie (Captaining the ship) invited the rest of the Boundless Love Project Tuesday night meditation crew for a boat ride on Prior Lake.

I feel blessed to still be able to facilitating our Tuesday night meditation group. If you want to live with more love, courage, and joy, please consider taking my free, online class: Mindfulness Fundamentals 2.0. For guided meditations, and other meditation and mindfulness resources, check out BoundlessLoveProject.org. Or email me if you’d like the link to attend our Tuesday evening meditation.

My dear friend and dance partner Sebastian moved from St. Paul to California in May of 2022, but we still got together online most weeks throughout 2024 to practice dancing via Steezy Studio and/or Zoom. In August, Seb visited me and we filmed this on the morning of August 24th.

Later that day, we had a wonderful party at Crystal Lake Beach so I could introduce Seb to a bunch of my friends.

Here is a dance performance we did at the park that day.

You can check out more of my sick dance moves here. Haha!

I had met Ali online, and in September he came over for our first visit. He is sweet and kind and he visited me most weeks for the rest of the year.

On Sept 30 we celebrated Erin’s birthday, at Angela’s place. Erin took me paddle boarding this year on Crystal Lake, it was so fun!

So Much Gratitude

To my friends and family, thank you for your kindness, care, compassion, humor, playfulness, joy, and all the other beautiful qualities that you share with me. Thank you for making time to get together with me. Thank you to everyone for accommodating my health needs so I can spend time with you. Thanks also to all of my friends and family who have sent holiday cards, emails, and messages. It is so good to hear from you all.

And a huge, never-ending, thank you goes to my parents for all their love and support. It is often challenging and inconvenient to live with someone with special needs, and they make many sacrifices for my wellbeing.

I aim to use my body’s ongoing health issues as an opportunity to deepen my mindfulness, love, courage, persistence, and wisdom. And regardless of how my body and mind function (or don’t), I aim to live joyfully and skillfully.

Finally, dearly beloved, please always remember that you have inherent worth and value, and treat yourself with the same level of compassion and kindness that you treat your dear friends. I love you for being you.

Have a delightful Holiday Season and a Happy New Year!

Freeman

P.S. Ideally, I would send these out every year to stay in touch with friends who are far away that I don’t see often, but in reality they are intermittent. The only other one I sent out was for 2021 — and I think I sent that pretty late into 2022. Anyways, my love is there for you, even though I am inconsistent with these aspects of relationship. Thanks for understanding.