August 7, 2021: An itinerant spurt in New York has fallen me woefully behind on fan mail, but I finally got it together to send the nurses who gave me my COVID vaccine, back in April, their postcards. Melissa, Lacey, and Connie were delights, and delighted to be appreciated (I also rolled up with homemade cookies for the staff) - their reaction to film, and my declaration that I'd mail them, if they liked, was tremendously satisfying. Analogue simply packs a punch digital never, ever will to, a sucker for the tangible, which feels particularly right in this season of reveling so hard in simply being alive.