September 2, 2020

Idyllic birthday party in the garden last evening. Leland brought tiki torches.  We sat and talked until Venus, and then the first stars, came out. I wore black, and in the Facebook photographs look very small and distant. I was glad that it happened. I thought of b\Byron meeting Lord Cambridge on the road in Italy, and reaching out, invisibly, with such tender and hopeless longing.