This conversation starts out with my asking Bill if he’d ever bought about writing a book and whether we should write one together. Wouldn’t it be fitting, friends, for Bill, the consummate recommender of books, to write a book? I am sure he’s written tomes if we were to amass all of the documents prepared for Ordinary Life over the years!

So here is the statement of intent signed this 16th day of August (for you, the 17th, but we had to do some pre-contracting) in the year 2023: Holly and Bill will co-author a book.

There. I said it.

Here is a question to ponder: What keeps you moving, inspired, and growing while you wait for things to get better, what we’ve referred to as the not yet? What gives you a sense of presence? I am not kidding when I say one of those things is baseball. The emotional arc of a single baseball game is an exquisite experience that belongs only in those nine innings. And then you do it again the next day, for six months out of the year. I love it. Of course, books give both of us so much joy. Between poetry, history, fabulous fiction, spirituality, and magic trick instructions, reading is a pathway to presence and growth. It also helps us to comb our lives for the moments when we realized we had changed.

What delights you these days? What makes you present to change?