Hi ,
I'll make this a very short end of the year newsletter. It's not like much happened in 2020, right? 😆 By this time tomorrow, the year, and the decade, will officially be over.
Actually, a lot did happen, and not all bad. I did my longest mountain bike race ever, I made my very first music video, I sold my first album, and built my first structure. Although nearly everything about 2020 was out of sync compared to a "normal" year, I tried hard to embrace the good things that occurred in my life during the past twelve months.
I didn’t shoot as many photos as I usually do in a typical year, I wrote fewer blog posts, didn’t fly very much, occasionally forgot how old I am, and rode about half as many miles on my bike as I did last year, I did play more music, write more songs, bake more bread, read more books and shoot more video lessons than I did in 2019.
I also took up woodworking, so all in all, I did stay pretty creative in 2020. That’s pretty much what got me though. That and all the grilled cheese sandwiches. I hope that you managed to keep it all together in 2020, or at least were able to keep it somewhat intact.Â
I just published my last blog post of the year, called A Look Back at the Good Parts of 2020. It's a retrospective about the past year, what happened, how my life was different and what I did to get through each month. It's a long post, but its broken up nicely by month, so you can easily pick away at it if you
can't get it all down in one sitting.Â
Finally, I'd like to mention that even though my business was certainly affected by the pandemic, I never got to that stressful point where I had to worry too much, and that’s entirely because my awesome readers and subscribers came through. You guys kept me afloat by purchasing my ebooks, watching my YouTube videos, supporting me on Patreon,
and subscribing to my Photography on the Brain lessons. For that, I’m deeply and genuinely grateful, and I’ve done my best to pass it along, because we are truly all in this together.
So thank you for your continued support, and very best wishes for a renewed near and better days ahead as we slowly begin to crawl back toward the light.
Sincerely,
-Dan Bailey
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