We spent several days on the North Fork of Long Island tasting the sulphuric wines and visiting organic farms while reading Sherri Vinton's book The Real Food Revival. Rather depressing but a window to a new world and a new career; we eschew writing and sitting in front of one of these glaring screens so anything espousing the out of doors seems just fine with Symposia.

By the by, we are convinced that growing up in the 1950s was qualitatively finer than it must be for children today. There was a breath of freedom and possibility that was intoxicating; today competition exists for what we just took for granted and discarded.