This post may be similar to others I wrote a few weeks ago. However, this time I was able to reflect on and process what I experienced just a little more deeply. I am grateful beyond measure. “ Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men (and I’m adding women) and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. ” –

It’s T-1 day until Bill and I head to the Cevennes for a Retreat for Writers. The folks we have been hanging out with in Nîmes the past week (and the past few days with Bill in town) are going too. We will all meet up with about a dozen more folks, most coming in from the USA and Spain tomorrow afternoon. The days are flying by, and I am happy to report that I am taking advantage of the light, the glorious light, from a little after 6 am to 9:15 pm. No wonder why all those im