People Of 2025

  In my travels and life during the year, I have been blessed to be supported, befriended, and on occasion visited by some pretty awesome folks. Sometimes I visited them. (Hopefully they were equally blessed!) I wanted to take some extra space to recognize and celebrate these people at the end of the year. I hope you gain some insight and appreciation for what these people mean to me this year and beyond. 

From the Tree In The Road Ride. Image by Jason Boucher

 
Last year I started a mew 'end-of-year' segment called "People of 2025". Things were a lot different from the standpoint of people in my life for 2025. Firstly, my giving my truck as a trade in piece to my son, Jacob in October of 2024 severely limited my abilities to go anywhere to be with people I know from cycling. This had an enormous effect on how many people I would see this year. 

But overshadowing this was my son's sudden and unexpected death in early August. This brought a flood of visitors to the memorial service we had in my son's honor. So, listing out each important person seems a bit uncouth and rude to me. Everyone had a part in the support for me and my family. And many people contributed to this in any of several ways beyond physically being here. Therefore, all who chose to even give a thought to myself and my family in these difficult days deserves a "People of 2025" recognition. 

I'll be doing a post looking back on Events and a special post regarding my son and our cycling journey, but singling out folks for recognition this year seems a bit of a miss and I do not feel right about it. So, in closing, I just want to thank each and every one of you who read along when I posted about my son, my feelings, and how I was working through this tragedy, and still am working through it. I appreciate all your thoughts and prayers. I appreciate the contributions, the comments, and the visits. I cherish the hugs and tears shed. 

Thank you all.