After the transporting experience of a month in New Zealand, last January (was it only five months ago?) we were plunged into a winter and spring of pandemic and as I burrowed into home and our “pod,” isolating to stay safe, I have been reading widely and deeply, but not able to do much writing… until recently. Perhaps the summer solstice has set me free to write again. Certainly time by magnificent Lake Michigan has done its magic. As I’ve immersed myself in 17th century