June 7  

Assessment of yesterday's goals and today's goal

I read through the brief case of papers related to our place for my essay and was moved and overwhelmed by the last section before ours of the abstract for the property detailing how the previous owners couldn't pay the mortgage or the bills and had to turn it back to the bank.  I had only briefly summarized what happened in 2 sentences in the short version of the essay.

I had a good session at the archives and wrote up what I learned to my colleague who also does archival research on writing instruction. I emailed one of the few people on the 1979 committee who is still alive to get his perspective. 

Today's goals and assessment: I read and printed out earlier emails from the more recent 2020--present moment, again exhausting and started a timeline.