RECORD

The years since 2020 have carried more than one kind of rupture. Family loss,
especially the death of your mother, altered the emotional weather of the whole
record. Wakes, eulogies, memory, and the meaning of family ritual moved from
inherited material to immediate lived experience. What had once been observed
from within a large family system became something more intimate and irreversible.

At the same time, the professional line did not disappear. It intensified.
Books were published. Training work continued. Consulting carried on. Public
Information Limited became more central as both a practical structure and a
personal container for the kind of work that felt most true: technical, creative,
independent, a little idiosyncratic, still open.

The music returned with more urgency. Not as fantasy, and not really as a bid
for conventional success, but as a necessary record of interior life. Home
recording became part archive, part witness, part survival. The creative work
stopped feeling optional. It became one of the ways the life stayed legible.

This is also the era of integration. The books, the systems work, the state
training, the consulting, the songs, the Cape stories, the family material,
the archive work, the open-source projects, the effort to build something
independent and lasting: all of it now belongs in the same frame.

“Presently Pursuing Peace of Mind” is not just a phrase. It is the governing
mood of this stretch of years. Not perfect peace. Not final peace. But the
continued pursuit of it, honestly and in public enough to leave a trace.

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NOTE

This period is unfinished by definition. It is the section still being lived.
That is also what makes it the most important part of the archive.