A re-cap of 2022, a year of travel, independence, artistic expression, three book tours, live poetry performances, death of a Queen, Ukraine invaded by an ex-KGB thug, Covid-19 wind-down, an innovative new/old film, theatre productions, new friends made and old friends rediscovered and forty books read and recorded - a forest of tiny pin-pricks in the life of a relative nobody set against the infinitesimal black curtain of endless space - my life in 2022. I thank the fates for it.