As we mark the end of 2025, we created a brief episode to share some lessons learned during our recent “hibernation” period. During this time of quiet, seeds of possibility have been germinating underground. We’ve been slow-cooking a couple of possible collaborations, letting new ideas soften and deepen, and giving space for a few new people joining our team to find their footing. More on all of that in due course.

For now, we’re choosing to stay in this liminal space intentionally: not quite “away”, not quite “back”, and not rushing either.

We feel so grateful that we could record again this year, as we put together the 8 episodes which comprised season 2 of our podcast. The conversations, the questions, the moments of honesty, and the way the show kept teaching us how to listen is what keeps us excited about what's next.

The two small offerings mentioned in this episode:

1. A poem by Tristan; see the full text on our substack.

2. A neat collation of themes from season two — a small map of the terrain we’ve explored. It’s there for your wandering on lazy afternoons. We won’t say too much; part of the fun is discovering what it shows you. See link here.

Thank you for being here with us, on the threshold. We’re looking forward to what comes next, and we’re letting it arrive in its own time.

The music in this episode is composed and arranged by Rashid Epstein Adams / Arkenstone.