7/14 As the heat will make it impossible to do just about anything in the city – no run in the morning, no bike trip to the Little Red Lighthouse, no meeting of friends for my daughter – we decided we might as well drive to Newburgh, even if just for two days.

Looking at the essay, it may be a bit ridiculous that I feel “almost done” just because I have written down all the material. It is absolutely unclear how this needs to be written down. Consider Kertész taking decades to understand how to write Fatelessness. Then again, consider the writers of whom I read excellent pieces week by week.