Good Night

Bit of a long day today. Drove out to Minoa, 84 miles from here, and spoke to a couple of prospective plebes. Spoke extemporaneously this time. Not sure I did a great job, but everyone was polite about it. After I got home, YouTube's algorithm offered this in my feed. Pretty inspiring, and it felt pretty serendipitous after my day trip. Then Mitzi started watching a three part documentary on U.S. Grant on Netflix. I got sucked into it. I was modestly familiar with much of Grant's story, but the documentary covered a great deal that was new to me. It's a remarkable story about a profoundly great American leader, and if you're a Netflix subscriber, I heartily commend it to your attention. Finally, scanning my feeds before noticing the sky and taking this photo before bed, I came across this post at The Marginalian. That meaning is not something we find but something we make, that it is intimate as love and subjective as the reasons for it, may be the great gift and the great onus of…