Thank you

Oh look, it's Friday

As I finished Stack the Week for this week, I prepared to turn to the World Cup to watch the United States. Soccer matches go on forever, right? Especially with those water breaks. Just as I did, the New York Times alert arrived with the result. I am not going to spoil it for you in case you’ve got it recorded.

In more synchronous news, I learned about what a witness tree is at the moment they were excavating the vast stump of a tree just outside my office window. It was a witness tree over this house for maybe 60-100 years. I tried to count the rings but it was of such a wonky shape I couldn’t pull it off. I figure I’d get to it some day once I learned a little bit more about what I was doing. I ran out of time.¹

As the above testifies², the days are filled with endless white sheets of writing and I am grateful to all of you out there for subscribing and paying for this work. And thank you to the Apple Podcast reviewers who have left such generous comments.

Anne flew out to California for 24 hours of work so I without material to write some winning comment about our immediate plans, but I believe if I walk in the direction of the kitchen my natural impulses will kick-in and the rescue I need will be found close at hand.³

Have a wonderful summer weekend. Thanks for being out there.

John

1. This paragraph did not start out as a second example of time running out. Actually the opposite, because I learned about witness tree at the moment they were removing ours, but the writing goes where it wants to.

2. Notes from Navel Gazing Season 2, Episode 3.

3. I hope my sentences get shorter.