A month of discoveries, including what my leg can now do, now that my mind isn't getting quite as much in the way. Lots of riding to work on the new mountain bike, riding in actual mountains on the mountain bike and the first period of truly hot, hot, hot weather this summer.

It begins with a lot of losses, lots of life losses of people that I haven't kept that well in touch with, and sometimes think that I should have. But suicide and accident claims them, in ways that I can't fight and can't do anything about.

Carl and Gretchen help me re-discover that the actual key may well be to live my life to its fullest in recompense, or something. They do the excellent therapy of renting me a BMW M3 and we go romping through the beach areas and mountains in a very sweet little car. Yum.

And it ended with the beginning of a lovely, vivid weekend.