Thanks to you, old and good friends of ours and the project. Thanks for all your help and prayers and support.

For the kids,

David

You and Chris and Gordon are never far from my mind now as the fire finds its way. We are praying while you work and pray, and I hope to be on the cabin’s deck of a late October evening hearing all the stories and sorrows and joys that attend something so big and so sad and so clarifying.

Sending love and prayers to you and Chris and all our friends in Big Sur,

David

Yes, so many things to celebrate, here and there. The sight level has, after a number of calls to Germantown, WI, and some creative surgery is on the job again…today in fact.

Your enthusiasm keeps me going. Love from Kenya,

David

I think the last time I was at a downtown parade I was seven or eight, and I have the most important memories if it, and so I was deeply comforted that they are still marching, and twirling and parading in Montana, downtown , on the 4th.

I view you and Aunt Sister as pillars of the project, and feel proud and protected.

Love to you both,

David

In an odd set of circumstances, I did get to see most of the finals. I was in Nairobi and found a place to watch. No sound, but that great, gentlemanly tennis. I took exactly the same memory path, breakfast at the cabin with those we love and the tenuous antenna strapped to a straight cedar. Somehow that seems like paradise now, both in the living and the remembering.

Great to hear from you, Joe. You are so often in my thoughts. With old, deep love,

David