Lots of travel, so lots of reading in airports and on planes.

Three recommendations:

The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper by Roland Allen

The Language of the Night by Ursula K. Le Guin

Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

(Housekeeping: Absence of a missive last week due to a very long flight on Sunday that lacked any WiFi)

This is not a small love
you hear               this is a large
love, a passion for kissing learning
on its face.
This is a love that crowns the feet with hands
that nourishes, conceives, feels the water sails
mends the children,
folds them inside our history where they
toast more than the flesh
where they suck the bones of the alphabet
and spit out closed vowels.
This is a love colored with iron and lace.
This is a love initialed Black Genius.

This is not a small voice
you hear.

— from This Is Not a Small Voice by Sonia Sanchez