November 14, 2021
Dear Dr. Meyer:

I hope you are well. Thank you for hosting me for dinner; it was wonderful to see Nathaniel and Sabine again, and I hope our conversation was not too much afar from the sort of conversation you prefer.

Please forgive me for not writing for so long; I was not of the mind to write, as so often happens.

I find myself, after a reasonably successful time at the family wedding, and with my Uncle Bob in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, at Synergia Ranch south of Santa Fe. I had been here in 2018 and found it magical once, and depressing a second time. Now I am able to see it as both a source of sanity and a place of inspiration.

I spent today hard at work,, mopping floors, cleaning yard waste. Tomorrow I will continue with the yard and help also with canning some pears. A full day of hard work has done me good.

I have prevaricated so many times on helping you around the house: wanting to do it and not feeling up for it. I hope you will not take it as an insincerity that I most definitely wish to do so when I get back on Dec. 6.

I have been enjoying Felix Krull; I read part of it on the plane, and just now read the scene where, in his first confidence act, he has a voluntary seizure before a panel of army doctors.

There were many sentences that seemed worthy of being independent quotations, but this leapt out to me:

If it is possible to describe and define intellectually an emotional treasure as noble as freedom, then it may be said that to live like a soldier but not as a soldier, figuratively but not literally, to be allowed in short to live symbolically, spells true freedom.

There's another one I can't find right now.

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Would you send me whatever address (IP address?) can access your website?
I think some of my friends here might find your writing interesting.

Nikola.