I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs. - Annie Dillard Quite a morning out there, after an uneventful two hopper down here from NY after lunch yesterday. I have about three-and-a-half hours to finish prepping for a fairly major hearing after lunch. The clients are coming to the office late morning, and I need to have my schtick perfected and in the can by the time they show up. I find the whole exercise exhausting. It's started to dawn on me that we've los

“I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house." ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, October 10, 1842 We have a surfeit of autumnal sunshine out there over the valley of the Chemung. And yet, such gloom around this grand home, for both of us. The obvious source seems to lie with the fact that I'm crawling back into the Columbia to fly back to Florida for an injunction hearing tomorrow, an event that could surely be done just as well by Zoom but

Come, my friends, 'T is not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho' We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we

" I belong to a group of men who fly alone. There is only one seat in the cockpit of a fighter airplane. There is no space alotted for another pilot to tune the radios in the weather or make the calls to air traffic control centers or to help with the emergency procedures or to call off the airspeed down final approach. There is no one else to break the solitude of a long cross-country flight. There is no one else to make decisions. " - Richard Bach It's Friday, and I have a