all that's past is prologue...

 As I ease into 2025, I'm also thinking back on 2024. Rather than a resolution, I had a word — BUILD — and this is what I wrote about it. "Build" ended up meaning a lot about my physical environment instead of all the meanings of the word: Our front doors:  https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/03/welcome-build-post.html Art: (not a "Build" post per se but close enough):  https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/02/femme-au-plateau.html The new woodwork above the fireplace:  https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/03/keep-home-fires-burning-build-post.html A lifetime dream of going to Africa:  https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/04/africa-build-post.html Front curtains (working on a new storm window now):  https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/04/in-my-defense-i-was-left-unsupervised.html Scraping the garage:  https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/04/scraping-by-build-post.html Planting at Summit:  https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/04/april-showers-buil...

As I ease into 2025, I'm also thinking back on 2024. Rather than a resolution, I had a word — BUILD — and this is what I wrote about it. "Build" ended up meaning a lot about my physical environment instead of all the meanings of the word: Our front doors:  https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/03/welcome-build-post.html Art: (not a "Build" post per se but close enough):  https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/02/femme-au-plateau.html The new woodwork above the fireplace:  https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/03/keep-home-fires-burning-build-post.html A lifetime dream of going to Africa:  https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/04/africa-build-post.html Front curtains (working on a new storm window now):  https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/04/in-my-defense-i-was-left-unsupervised.html Scraping the garage:  https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/04/scraping-by-build-post.html Planting at Summit:  https://prologuist.blogspot.com/2024/04/april-showers-build-post...

I can't let 2024 go, though, without a few high points: 1. Tanzania and Zanzibar This trip speaks for itself. The most amazing trip we've ever done. 2. Other trips Other trips were pretty great too — New York for college visits and shows and seeing friends, a couple of cabin visits, Duluth day trip, New Orleans for Thanksgiving. 3. Beatrix's first summer show at circus. Her triumph, not mine — but she was great. 4. Aurora Borealis 4. Purchasing a Toulouse-Latrec. I'm still happy every day when I look at it. 5. Family here for Christmas The Norwegians were here and it was so much fun!