Dear reader,
This post is already long so I won’t embellish it with an Introduction—only the wish that you have been well since I last intruded on your inbox. Or, if not well, that you have at least found a moment or two for reading in quietude.
Quietude, as it turns out, is one of Sherwin-Williams’s “colors of the year” for 2025. These color-of-the-year …