I realized that yesterday’s postcard lacked the essential visual representation of the vacation that I am currently experiencing. I’ll eschew the token simulacrum and instead show the inclement reality: I’m sitting at a beach…. in JUNE… in a hooded sweatshirt, and, zut alors, I’m freezing.
When not pretending that the weather really isn’t that bad, I’m reading a bunch of things that I would never pick up except during vacation… like a collection of speeches and radio broadcasts by Winston Churchill. What a skilled orator! What a bad-ass! “If you’re going through hell, keep going” he said once, making me believe he too has gone walking on the Cape Cod National Seashore during a springtime wind storm.
