My accomplished, wonderful pals

2024 was difficult—but ultimately very good—for me. Something that got me through the difficult parts was enjoying the successes of my friends, pals, and comrades, of which I offer an incomplete list here, in roughly chronological order:

On the site in 2024

I only shared one new blog post this year. I did manage to keep up with monthly links & notes, and did a bunch of cleanup—tidying older posts, organizing the junk drawer, and so forth. Everything about this was good, but I’d like to do more soon.

A format for year-end reflection

Greg and Brett at Same Team Partners created a simple, free activity called Replay and Reset for 2025. I worked through this over the weekend—in under an hour—and uncovered a couple ah-has as well as committed to some new to-dos for the new year. I encourage you to try this for yourself.

The bit about my waders

I hope you find some time to say farewell to 2024 and get your waders on for 2025. The water is rising fast and looking pretty choppy.

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I must mention that the waders I use got eaten by rats this summer. I truly wish this was only a figure of speech.

I leave you with this, from §67 of the Tao Te Ching, in Stephen Mitchell’s translation. It’s as good an answer as any to the question of how we are meant to proceed from here.

I have just three things to teach:

simplicity, patience, compassion. 

These three are your greatest treasures. 

Simple in actions and in thoughts, 

you return to the source of being. 

Patient with both friends and enemies, 

you accord with the way things are.

Compassionate toward yourself,

you reconcile all beings in the world.
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