June 7, 2011 Dear Cyndy, Thank you for your letter, for your continuing interest and patience with my legal adventure. The latest turn of events came last night, when, having just finished packing the car, I checked the docket sheet on the Internet and found this entry: *Meyer v Nantucket Building Department et al* ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Docket Entry Details for Docket: SUCV2008-05664* *No.* *Docket Entry:* 1 Notice of cancellatiion of hearing Plerase be advised that the review 2 Status Hearing presently scheduled for June l6, 2011 at 2:00 P M in 3 the above entitled action has been cancelled Further notice will be 4 given as to rescheduled date time and place (Macdonald, 5 sent 6/6/11 (entred 6/3/11) It didn't take long for Margaret and me to decide that we wanted to stay in Konnarock for another month. I've managed to change the appointments of all but one of the patients scheduled for June. The "holdout" is merely an answering machine message, presumably not yet retrieved. The change in plans caused interesting emotional reverberations. I have been "leaving" Konnarock intermittenly for 69 years. There have been many departures since 1942, when my parents first drove me to the railroad station in Marion on my way to 8th grade at Germantown Friends School and a foster home with the Grubers at 5321 McCallum Street in Mt. Airy. As my parents were getting older, each departure was adumbrated by the awareness that I might never see them again. More recently, in October 2009, it was my sister whom I left behind for the last time. And now one of the coming prospective departures will be the last for myself or for Margaret or for us both. I have no complaints. It's a place of extraordinary beauty which we will leave behind. Meanwhile, I've used one of the old white enameled milk pitchers that I remember from the kitchen in Braunschweig, to pour "wild bird seed" into the feeder. The birds shall have another month on welfare. As of a few minutes ago the Nantucket Inspection Report, due June 10th, had not yet been listed on the docket sheet of SUCV2008-05664. I surmise that the plumbers and their lawyers are having fabrication problems. I've prepared a formal response which, if you're interested you may read at http://home.earthlink.net/~ej1meyer/2011/M110604.00pr I will hold this missive until they have filed their report. Klemens estimates the probability of illicit ex-parte communication between the lawyers and the Court at 75 percent. He may well be correct. One forgets that there are social and political dynamics even within the court system. The judges don't (necessarily) agree with each other. Some will be biased in favor of Nantucket; others will be offended by being played for fools by the Nantucket authorities. Your correction of my apostrophe punctuation error is an appropriate reminder of the circumstance that I often neglect to proof-read; but an interetsing illustration of the circumstance that my writing (and probably that of many others) is driven by sound. When I write, I find background music intolerably distracting. It's not deliberate, I "know" better, but not infrequently discover phonetic confusions not only in spelling, but even in the choice of words. To my mind an interesting perspective on the nature of language, which, so far as I'm concerned is similar to music. I hope that you and Ned are having a happy summer. Jochen * * * * * *