That’s fully-caffeinated me, yep, and thanks 🙇🏽‍♂️ I do like words, it’s true.

(So does one of the crows that visit the copse behind my house here, in fact. Earlier this summer, he surprised us all with a spontaneous and unprovoked “hello”, but he’s not encored it yet. Maybe some day I’ll hear him clearly again, and I’ll know that invisible bridge between worlds exists.)