(1) Fruits. (2) Vegetables. (3) Talk therapy. (4). Marianne Faithfull. Especially that extra L. Faith, full. (5) Taking it easy. (6) Reconnaissance. (7) Watching S– listen to Still Feel Gone for the first time, knowing what his reaction will be (better, even, in this case, than he does). (8) The ways, then, he and I (we) are the same. (9) The ways we’re different too: mayonnaise, for instance, and Bob Dylan, Green Day, etc. (10) His increasing familiarity/facility with stringed instruments. (Please see: #9 above.) (11) Chernow’s Hamilton tome. (12) Tome, the word. (13) How Chernow is given to similar verbal flourishes (e.g., imbibe). (14) A fast round of golf at a no-frills muni by the airport, on a perfect day for flying. (15) Flaneuring during said round of golf, to no real end. (16) Flaneuring, the word. Obviously. (17) Quitting Team of Rivals at the sad part. Just that realization: it’s okay, you’ve read this book before. You know what happens. You don’t have to read this right now. Again. Move on. Read something else. Enter: #11 above. (18) Reading biography as a form of spiritual, mental, and emotional regulation, i.e., wisdom literature. (19) Putting things in order. (20) Rearranging things. (21) Noticing disorder, not judging it. (22) The relationship, that is, between things coming together and things falling apart. (23) Mantras. (24) Buzz words. (25) Buzz, the word. (26) Focus, the buzz word/mantra. (27) Mantra, the word, for that matter. (28) Cooperate, the buzz word/mantra. (29) Prayer, breathing (still). (30) Also (still) stillness.