Date: Sat, July 16, 2022 at 11:55 AM

Good morning. I'm up. Thank you for keeping me informed about your plans. I'm very glad that you were well enough to go. I hope you have an uneventful and satisfactory trip. For me yesterday's distress has dissipated. It was not occasioned by being "left behind", but by my uncertainty about the possible incorrectness of my decision not to go, of which I am now confident in all dimensions: a) with respect to my physical incapacity, and b) with respect to the spiritual reality. Please let me know when you get home.

Sat, July 16, 2022 at 09:15 AM

My test was negative, I feel well this morning, and I have decided to go. I am sorry to be leaving you behind. I will let you know when we arrive and leave Readfield and when we arrive home. Nathaniel and Sabine are taking Rebekah and Noah in their car, because both Rebekah and Mark feel too tired to drive safely. Mark is staying with the girls.

On Fri, Jul 15, 2022 at 11:12 PM Ernst Meyer <ernstmeyer@earthlink.net> wrote:

    Thank you for letting me know. I am emotionally profoundly disoriented,
    very much regretting the circumstance that I am objectively, physically
    unable to go, and that my presuming to go nonetheless would at minimum
    precipitate painful social embarrassment, and possibly much worse. Of
    course, I very much hope that you don't get sick, but if for any reason
    you don't go, then my staying here will have a very different meaning
    for me. In either case, please let me know where you will be.

On 07/15/2022 10:01 PM, klemensbmeyer@gmail.com wrote:

    It turns out that I was exposed to COVID early Thursday evening,
    speaking with a colleague who tested positive a few hours later. I will
    test myself tomorrow morning, and will decide whether or not to go to
    Readfield if I test negative. I presume that the event will be outside,
    and wearing a mask outside, I would pose a minimal risk to others.
    However, there is the drive. I don’t particularly want to drive 3 hours
    each way wearing a mask with the windows open. I may just stay here. In
    retrospect, if you had waited to make the decision whether to go
    yourself, you would not have needed to decide on the basis of your own
    functioning.
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