Amy S.’ brother owns a winemaking shop up in Bellingham, and a dozen of us spent the weekend up there making wine and lounging around a lake house. There’s something really satisfying about spending time with a small group like that; it’s enough people to keep a lot of energy in the air but few enough that you can spend time with everyone individually.

I’ve been feeling a more quiet, introspective mood coming on lately. This is part of the usual end-of-summer, post-Burning Man change of seasons / change of direction / reëvaluation experience, but it’s intensified by the recent change in my job.