This is our one second video for 2024. You might notice it’s missing days, entire weeks even, especially in January. Mind ya business.

Is this a “highlight reel”? Absolutely.

Does it leave out a lot- some things that we didn’t mean to leave out (because we forgot to get the video before we left! Remind us next time?) and some moments that were less (far less) photogenic? Absolutely.

I gave up on the idea of “one second a day” meaning exactly one second per day a long time ago. In between some of these clips were days where we just went to work and then felt tired after, or, we had such a bad day that we didn’t have a darn thing that felt worth remembering.

But what we are left with is a conglomeration of moments that I’m delighted to notice and remember.

• The matcha from Valor Coffee on that day I drove to drop off film at Dunwoody Photo.
• The first time we left the house to go on a date after the 2nd miscarriage (we had sushi).
• When we hopped onto the boat to “help” Dad burn off some fuel before winterizing the engine.
• The day that we harvested honey. The day that colony swarmed.

There’s an argument that moving images– short clips, video, etc- elicit memory more readily than still photos. And I think, for my own mind anyway, that this tends to be true. Whatever anyone else may enjoy about the video, or whatever glimpse into my day-to-day it may offer, these short clips do trigger an entire contextual memory for me (at least for now). The joy in rewatching these clips is not that it’s some perfectly accurate record, but that each clip, at some point on that particular day, felt worth capturing.

For what it’s worth, I hope you enjoy this glimpse into our 2024 (but it’s ok if you don’t find it interesting at all, because it’s really just for me).

Happy 2025 to all! 🩷