And now Europe

It's hard to write about what we're doing without summoning up memories of your neighbors' slides of their summer vacation. We're in Europe. Right at the moment we are in Geneva with our friends Wendy and Dean Hirsch. Sunday night we return to Madrid to Dave and Daphne Fisher for another week. Then, we rent a car and drive into France for a few days before heading back to England for a two-week time traveling around to see various friends. It's all wonderful: good friends, great scenery, amazing museums, history, cafes, wine, etc. Yet at the same time the prospect of home begins to peek around the corner, and that's seductive. I'm a little worried that I'll just sleepwalk through the remaining six weeks. Six weeks! That's a lot of time. We want it to be as good, and as useful in our lives, as possible. And we hope it will prepare us to be good and do good when we return to Santa Rosa. We've been talking to our friends about the future quite a bit.