Hey there how are you. I have come from my room to the porch to light a cigarette and enjoy this beautiful day. Where if one could know I would be sent to the space in which thoughts arrived, there might be some recourse to the sense that all was totally lost. But hay naow. Thick towering clouds mark the blue sky in layers and streaks of airplane exhaust follow themselves fadingly out somewhere though now indeed out of view. I wanted to write you because it’s been a good while and I have a few things to update you about. (This is Checkup Central.) I have begun on the manuscript again. It is a little exciting. Feeling good about the maturation of my voice now, where all I can take myself, what all I can do with it. There is a sense I have more a grasp of how to operate while intentionally way out of my own depth. And a kind acquaintance of mine in my group therapy painted me a rock on which she inscribed “I write therefore I am” in yellow and red paint. I intend to use it as a paperweight. And I’ve gotten a new giant notebook that has the words Huge Notebook on its cover in bold sans-serif white. It’s ~630 pp. I feel well equipped now to go on with the act of trying to write and trying and trying. Thank you for checkin in with me. Have an awesome day.