Thanks Eileen. We’re all okay but a little shaken, esp our CDC friends and neighbors.

Let me know if you ever need a reader. I like where you’re going with this, and I think it’s vital to describe so many of the things you touch here. I’ve been troubled by the cavernous silences.

I believe it! Are the chapters drafted yet or just in your head?

I really appreciate the share! Greetings from holiday in Amsterdam, Wilko.

Man just let us get out of this hiring freeze. I’ve written memos about it already.

Hear hear!

Awesome!

Great writing and research, Michael! Love seeing this kind of detail and thought from Texas (my home).

"The world is beautiful, and outside it there is no salvation."

Most surprising of all is his address to the landscape -- say the landscape of sunbathing on the beach -- as a perpetual present where people aren't required to perform duties to family or the state. The "unbearable" sublime, for him, is wandering the hills of Florence.

I'm astonished to find something like the corollary of Henry David Thoreau. Unbridled odes to beauty, truth, the body, the power of love.