Here's a slow, reflective Ramble coming to you close-enough-to-live from under a sycamore tree in a river bed earlier this morning. Lotta birds, lotta thoughts. Sitting in a weird mental soup right now, but talking through all this out loud was very helpful.

(If you're new here, first off, welcome! Second off, I upload these little Captain's Log audio journals every few weeks. They're very open-ended and personal and not generally directly about anything in particular, but they're a good snapshot of whatever's got hold of my attention at the moment. I welcome and encourage discussion in the comments around anything that's got hold of your attention right now—related or unrelated.)

Mentioned in this Ramble:

• Ventura River Preserve 
• Wayward Retreat
• All I Want
• Christina Tran on titles
• Tara Shepersky and Stefan Lorenzutti (our forthcoming book is called Tell the Turning)
• Connection Club
• Baggywrinkles
• Katie Wheeler

There's a transcript attached to this post for those of you who prefer reading. This week's fancy upgrade is that now the transcript also has links? I think that's cool. If anyone feels strongly about having/not having timestamps included, let me know.

Okay, off to cavort around in relief at having successfully posted this. Take care of yourselves.

L