December 2025
Books read: The Colony by Annika Norlin (translated by Alice E. Olsson) Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon Trails walked: Myers Homestead near Boulder (Dec 2nd) Three Loops in Heil Valley Ranch near Lyons (Dec 30th) Song(s) of the month: The Love Me or Die by CW Stoneking December Summary: The end of the year has always been full of lists that summarize the news, movies, music, photography and cultural events of the past twelve months. I love reading these lists even though the music lists seem lately to consist of artists I've never heard of (a sure sign I'm getting old). It's a good way to find new music and also a good way to find music that you'd never really want to listen to, ever. My favorite list however, was by Angus Hervey who writes a substack that I follow called Fix the News . I wrote a bit about him and his work in the summary of my September 2024 blog . The title of his year-end blog is The Telemetry and the subtitle is: All the new...