Sensorium End of Year: Best of 2025

While I didn't do as much journaling this year the senses I recorded were standouts.

Memories include the Solarpunk party and solar UFO, my solarpunk books on the shelves of We Be Bookin’ library, the French student's art project, lovely clients with matching names Leo, Theo and Luna, Runa, and some fun concerts in Everett Coffin Break and Lene Lovich.

Taste of the year: biscuits and gravy Morning Glory Cafe and Bayside Cafe

Sounds of the year: a din of friends; orchestral and choir music - what we create together in community Smells of the year: pine, sea air

Sight of the year: the California Coast; blue seas, golden beaches

Touch of the year: swimming on NYE (last year and this)

Intellect, ideas, and dreams: Totally Awesome Game Weekend and Stanford Inn by the Sea --canoeing with dogs

Quotes of the year:

“We are creatures built for joy. At the very saddest of funerals, we can hear a funny story about our lost beloved, and, God help us, we laugh. We can stagger out of an appointment where a person in a white coat has given us news we think we cannot bear to hear, and still we smile at the baby in the checkout line...This is who we are the very best of who we are.“ — Margaret Renkl, The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

"Apocalyptic stories always get the apocalypse wrong. The tragedy is not the failed world's barren ugliness. The tragedy is its clinging beauty even as it fails. Until the very last cricket falls silent, the beauty-besotted will find a reason to love the world." — Margaret Renkl, The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year

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