Sounds like writer and artist Austin Kleon had a pretty good 2024. What I really like about this list is how hardly anything on it can be copied – and this from the guy who wrote «Steal Like An Artist»! – but how it gets you thinking what you have in your life (or what you could change) that creates the same joy.

From Weekly Filet #511, in January 2025.

100 things that made my year (2024)

100 things that made my year (2024)

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