1. I would like to make an account of expenses for the Nantucket property.
To this end, it would be helpful to know the amounts of the real estate
taxes that have been paid from 1989 to the present. Should be obtain these
from our own records or from the Nantucket tax collector? I don't want
you to go to spend time going through old records or checkbooks, but
I do need some guiidance as to how I should proceed.

2. As I have said repeatedly, I am happy to rent a truck and take piano,
organ, books and other Belmont superfluities to Konnarock, if you would
like it.

3. My own preference is an enterprise which includes the whole family.
It may strike you as extreme, and may be impractical, but what I would
choose would be a 17 hour 7 person non-stop minivan dash to Konnarock,
the three drivers alternating, and the children, if necessary, plied with
a little bit of benadryl. If, instead of five, you could set aside seven
days for this purpose, it could be a real winter vacation.

4. My second choice is to rent a house in New Hampshire or Vermont for
a weekend or a week, take everybody, and get in as much cross country
skiing as is practical and we are physically up to.

5. My third choice is for you and myself to make one or more day trips
on cross country skis perhaps into Zealand Notch or some similar terrain.
If we did this, I think we should ask Laura to come along, and arrange
for Phyllis and Margaret to share in the care of the children. But I am
not really comfortable with any plan that leaves Margaret, Laura and the
children behind.

6. I wish it might be possible for you and myself (and Laura) to do some
real hiking this summer, since Margaret will obviously not be physically
able to do it, and it might be too disconcerting if I went alone. But
perhaps I am too demanding in this respect, perhaps I should count the
benefits of my present situation and accept the circumstance that my
hiking days may be over.

7. All these possibilities are suitable subjects for meditation and 
- Entsagung.