Two things have happened since we returned from Maine.
Dodge Morgan, whom John and I visited on August 15 and who told us of his planned surgery in early September, never recovered from that operation. He died in the hospital on September 14.
I am talking with Dodge's friends and have been asked by Soundings Magazine to write a remembrance of him. That is a privilege, albeit a very sad one. Dodge was one of a handful of individulas I've met over the years that I wanted to get to know better, and never really did. He was a unique human being.
The second event is minor. Bluebird, the Mariner, was launched last Thursday and I got to sail her on Friday. She sailed exquisitely.