In 2024 my word of the year was "Launch!" This totally happened. Done! For 2025, I am going with "Publish!" and "Listen" (with a goal to listen to a song every day). This year, I was busy launching my new business and I didn’t record so much of the senses around me. So, determining this year’s best and worst was quick business —and there was not so much “worsts," which I tend to bury. Best of the Year 2024 Me, plotting for the New Year “The Lady and the spaniels” 1842, by Edwin Henry Landseer (British, 1802-1873 ) Taste: apples, hot ciders, and hard ciders — cosmic crisp, hot lavender apple cider, pumpkin amaretto cider. I loved apples in so many ways, as usual. And switched more expensive wine for pints, or perhaps a schooner, of hard cider. Soundbite has so many interesting flavors. Sound: cat purring, humans saying, “Meow!” From Chopin’s nocturnes to Rotersand (concert of the year!) Touch: the weight of the small animals — in laps, being c...