I won’t have time to copy the paragraph I just read in the book I was just given yesterday because my older dog has an appointment with a bone specialist in forty minutes. But we finally went to visit a good friend whose husband died almost a year ago. For six months she didn’t want to actually get together with anyone and then COVID hit. So yesterday we went to a socially distanced tea in their new garden. We arrived wearing masks and since I’d never been to their new home were given a tour. Her husband Bill, a Jungian analyst, had always been my favorite conversation partner whenever the women artist’s group got together and included we guys. While looking into Bill’s old office I happened to spy a newish book with by the author Antonio Damasio, an author whose book A Feeling of What Happens I’d ordered for myself in the last year. (So much for resolutions not to buy any new books.) Marriana insisted I take it. The book is titled The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and the Making of Cultures. I just read the introduction to the fifth chapter titled The Making of Minds. When we get back from the vet I will copy the first paragraph here.