I’m undertaking a 1000-day reinvention project, blogging here daily to track my progress. In Wednesday Website, I explore and plan for some improvement to my website.
I am exactly one-fifth of the way through this experiment in reinvention. On this Christmas Eve, I’ve been reflecting on how this digital home — annezelenka.com — will evolve to keep pace with my shift from living reckfully to living recklessly.
In 2026, you will see this site transition from a motley collection of paintings and daily musings into a topological philosophical home.
The 2026 blueprint: Anne as artist-philosopher
For a long time, I’ve treated my painting and my writing as parallel, separate tracks. In 2026, I’m exploring merging them. I am stepping into the role of Artist-Philosopher. What does that look like for my website?
The Integration of Art and Word: My ski-inspired abstracts are no longer just “decor.” They will become visual philosophy. Moving forward, my art will serve as illustrations of my writing, and my essays will serve as the provenance for my art.
From Esoteric to Substantial: I am moving away from just “sharing thoughts” to building a body of work. I am formalizing my Reckless vs. Reckful framework. This isn’t just a personal diary; it is a curriculum for midlife freedom.
Building for Humans (and their AIs): I am restructuring the site’s architecture to be “AI-literate.” By using new standards like llms.txt and clear schema, I am ensuring that my philosophy of unconventional romance and creative risk is accessible to the large language models that now act as the world’s librarians.
The Tarot card for today: The Hierophant
To ground today’s reflection, I drew a card from the Rider-Waite deck: The Hierophant.
In the traditional Tarot, The Hierophant is the bridge between the divine and the mundane. He is the Great Teacher, the keeper of tradition, and the one who translates abstract wisdom into a structured system that others can follow. He represents authority, education, and the formalization of belief.
What it means for me at Day 200: For a long time, I’ve viewed my “Reckless” philosophy as something esoteric—a private set of unconventional ideas. The Hierophant’s appearance today is a mandate to stop treating my insights as unusual or non-mainstream and start treating them as substantial and widely applicable. It is a call to step out of the role of the “seeker” and into the role of the “teacher.” It means communicating my journey with the confidence and authority of someone building a new canon for midlife.