Black Wide-Awake simmered on a back burner for years; my first post was titled “At last.” Ten years and almost 7000 posts later, among the greatest joys this blog has brought me are the people I’ve met and relationships I’ve built. I’m grateful for the ways you enrich my understanding of a place I love, and I’m honored to have brought gifts to you. Now more than ever, we have to teach ourselves, tell our own stories, save our own spaces, preserve our own past. Thank you for reading, for supporting, for commenting, for amplifying, for sharing photos and memories, for championing our dead. Black Wilson got something to say!