At some point in 2024, I took a much longer hiatus from updating this blog than I intended. So long that a friend asked me if I thought my last post, on visiting James Buchanan’s Wheatland, was my magnum opus.

Nevertheless, we are limping back to life, here. This blog is now five years old, and I’m glad that there’s someone out there still reading it.

So, let me give you a speed run of the last year, accompanied by some somewhat curated film photos, and followed by some thoughts and goals for the coming year. In other words, a modicum of self-reflection, a pile of grain, and a word vomit of facile hope.

In return, dear reader, tell me what you want to see more on.