A note at forty-five 📬

Five years ago today, I sent the first email to this list. Today is my forty-fifth birthday, so I thought I’d send another update. There are 584 words below. I once listened to a radio interview with the writer John McPhee, then in his eighties, who claimed that the preoccupations of his many essays and books are the same subjects that fascinated him as a teenager. In the last few years, I see…