Thank You: 2025 Edition

Dear Friends:

Continuing in what seems to be a tradition since 2020, I save the last post of the year to thank you, my readers.

This year was far less predictable and far more unexpected than I could have anticipated.  

Even though I "claim" to be a homebody, I somehow managed to go to seven countries and five states this year.  I completed my first full year and set of seasons in New Home 2.0, got promoted, got some very needed personal feedback which - although in theory about Iai - was really about life, hiked in the Grand Canyon, lead a small group for the first time in over 15 years, performed publicly on the harp for the first time in 30 years, attended three Iaijutsu seminars, and managed to grow peppers.

This year also saw a final (and heretofore) unexpected turn at The Ranch, the final relocation of The Ravishing Mrs. TB, and the arrival of A the Cat.  And, I got a new car.

It has been a bit of a year.

I have commented before that writing a blog is for me a form of therapy. In meaningful ways, I am more "myself" here than I am in the real world.  And yet, while this literary therapy is useful in and of itself, it helps to have company.

In other words, writers write to have others read their work.

And so, my annual grateful thanks to you, my readers.

Thank you for the gift of your time and interest, the two greatest gifts one person can give to another.  Thank you for your comments, no matter if you only ever comment once.  Thank you for your thoughts and inputs and sometimes helping me to clarify my own thinking.

I have no idea what 2026 will look like, or even what I will write about.  While I am overall happy with the programming I set up for myself last year in terms of days and what to write on, I do not know that everything I was writing was as fresh at the end of the year as it was at the beginning and pushed me as a writer in the ways I need to be pushed.

Thanks as always for your support.

Your Most Obedient Servant,

Toirdhealbheach Beucail