This morning, I read a Mary Oliver poem. I'd like to leave it with you on this final weekend of 2024.

       Perhaps its sentiments will give you the same feeling of gentle, firm strength as it does me.

      Thank you for sticking with me this year, for reading these newsletters, and for your many helpful, supportive, illuminating comments. Here's to another year that holds... who knows what? May the inevitable ups and downs of 2025 strike the balance we all need to move, also inevitably, forward.

With love,

Gavin