If it’s okay to say, I really like the banner that I made for my Buttondown newsletter. The photo comes from a little-known, middle-of-nowhere bog in western Maine. It’s an otherwise inconspicuous, unremarkable, commonplace sunrise spot that I have passed a hundred times, usually on the way to a hike in the White Mountains or a weekend of mountain biking in Vermont. It is emblematic of just about everything I mean when I say “commonplace,” or “the small things are the best things.”

Last night, I created a page for my (neglected) Buttondown newsletter, mostly because I wanted a place for the banner to live and Buttondown does not include it in the archived newsletters… or so I thought. I went back, read some emails on an address I never check, and found that I had simply missed the memo about updates and just needed to copy, paste, and click a slidy button.

Still, I like the new page so for now I’m leaving the link in the navigation above. If I can stay the course this year, I hope to move most of any writing that I do back in that direction.