(qu)Easy goes!

Winston!

We only met during the one meal prep class for dumplings, but your class was the reason for me to finally see NYC Resistor, and test out the pickup-truck urban camper in the middle of Queens (4 days, spending $0).

my jet-lagged pal missed the discussion about freezing the dumplings, and had to throw out a bunch of them while I was going hungry on rice and peanuts a couple miles away.

All of us have so many ambitions that we are conditioned to keep from expressing, and I am so glad to experience the camaraderie of reading your essays, and plans, and learning about people like Andrea Gibson; I hope you find space to share more of your ideas as you go, because you are as inspiring as you are inspired. I am proud to see that although NYC has perhaps shaped you, it has done nothing to reduce you, as it does to so many people.

I am composing this to you from a small sailboat on the Chesapeake Bay, as the back of my mind ponders where to place the solar panel today, and how to rig up my broken tiller long enough for a calm night-sail in a couple days. My main schedule for now is "when shops open up on Monday", and I can dig around the parts piles for a replacement. When you leave the land behind, there is an inescapable queasiness as your body learns to roll on the incoming waves - and from the calm mornings to the raging evenings, you begin to absorb the emotions of the air and sea around you.

If you'd like to include me in your postcard group, I'd be happy for more decorations on board. I tend to over-do the post-it notes at expense of mementos.

Calliope Youngblood ********************, Basement Washington, DC 20005

I hope you have a chance to glance at my essays also, when you need a signal from the home you're departing. I am gradually expanding the publishing program, and may soon begin raising sponsorship income and bringing more composer/producers on board. For now I need to recommend the RSS link in the header.

://operand.online

I'm glad to keep my eyes pacing across your messages, and especially hope if you choose to move to online publishing, you share a link where I can read more from you. There's no assurances of where any of us are bound from here, so keep your plans in mind and be ready to bounce and roll as you go.

Easy goes! Calliope