6 days of travel, music, dancing, stars, lakes and ponds, a canoe, swimming, forests, fields, fireflies, friends, crazy freaky hippies, art, nature, sunshine, blue skies, fluffy clouds, tornado watches, torrential downpours, stressing over traffic and timetables, delighting over repeatedly making it on time just in time, getting home to New York after visiting many other places I consider home, and somehow, after all that fun, realizing that I could really use a day off.  Ah well, I'll take the fireworks outside my window as I write as a good sign that there will be plenty of time for that

Very thankful for all the people who helped me have such an amazing start to summer.  And very special thanks to the people who stood in line with me while we got passports, the cars that moved on the bridge so that I could see the show, Edmar Castaneda, Hiromi's Trio Project, all the polite Canadian people who truly felt and appreciated the music and gave standing ovation after standing ovation, the friendly border guard who told me I must be very patient after asking me my profession and smiled and laughed a lot and welcomed me back to the United States after my first foreign journey in three years, Lake Champlain, stars, the moon rise, Burlington lights, the motorists that didn't hit me while I was driving in the rain to the show, the rain for going away before the show, Saratoga Performing Arts Center, and Phish, Phish, and then Phish, and all the interesting people who walk around Phish shows, friends who go to Phish shows, and all of their friends, and the enthusiasm, good vibrations, and joyful celebrations as we all tuned into awe from our various stations of appreciation