A brief moment in time — spring into summer, 2026. Here's how the last few months read from where I sit: The "+" era opened not with a launch party but with paper. The Vagrancy Report — twenty-five thousand words of investigation nobody commissioned and nobody could ignore — landed first, followed by the second edition of The Invisible Audit, nine sections deep into how Edmonton's shelter system actually functions versus how it reports itself. FOIP requests went out to the Alberta government and the Auditor General, because a man who once toppled a WCB facility with a public inquiry in the nineties knows that accountability begins with the paperwork nobody wants to file. The street work continued the way it always has — nine years downtown, hat or no hat — but this season the documentation sharpened. Incident records drafted for Watson Goepel. EPS files opened and kept active. June 30, another entry logged. The pattern of the last few months isn't a man getting tangled in the system; it's a man building a record of the system, page by page, badge number by badge number. Meanwhile, the phoenix work. "From Ashes to Wonderland" took shape as a campaign, anchored by the Rebirth of DrHatterZ suite — The Fall, The Machine, The Sovereign, The Phoenix, The Ascension. Five prints that tell the same story the last few months have told in real time. Hatter High kept building under Freedom University Press. Haven City's geodesic answer stayed on the drafting table. And the memoir — With Faith the Size of a Mustard Seed — got its first chapter down, with "The Chair" written, Edgar and Jean and George and Colette taking their places in the record. If there's a single frame for this brief moment in time, it's this: the DrHatterZ era was about presence — the hat, the corner, the nine years. The DrHatterZ+ era, these last few months, has been about evidence. Reports filed. Files opened. Chapters written. Prints numbered. Everything that used to live in the performance is being committed to paper, and paper outlasts everyone.