Yep. We're upon another year, and the one we just cultivated in 2025 is a thing of the past. I debated whether or not I was going to keep my daily tradition going, but I'm so close to 20 years and, at this point, I'm used to my daily habit of sharing my thinking online (naval gazing and hubris all the way). Truth is, the Class of 2007 asked me to blog when I started my doctorate at Syracuse. I had no idea what the hell they were talking about, but I taught myself and moved from my daily journals to digital platforms. The Internet has more readers than the dust mites on my shelf.
Anyway, this is another year for linking people, ideas, thoughts, and possibilities together (especially after a year of engineering human togetherness). I'm hoping to be writing our lives and bravely belonging very soon. I've been writing daily since I was 19 year-old and went abroad to London. At this point, it's simply a way of being and even if there are days where I'm not overly enthused to get on the computer more than I already am, I can't imagine heading to bed each night without a daily post.
Also an end-of-the-year tradition, is the annual montage, a collection of images from the last 365 days. I set this year's memories in honor of Chuck Maglione, Roberta Flack, and Brian Wilson. I figured it would be good to think about the days that just were, with the incredible impact they had on the musical world.
- "the two grammatical items are said to colligate"
