July 6, 2021: Did not happen

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July 6, 2021: Did not happen. At 600 miles per hour, at 30,000 feet, with time fighting with earth's rotation this day did not exist in my life. Except at the very end, when I spoke to a bondhu on the phone and life was good. There is nothing more satisfying than knowing I am close to a place I helped reconstruct. Now it is time to rest. As Hank Williams once said, “I am a rambling man.”

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