The morning we left for the western community I woke before dawn.Not with anxiety. With the specific quality I had learned to recognize as the function attending to something significant before the day's activity gave it form.I lay in the early dark and felt the bond.Dante was awake beside me.Neither of us spoke for a moment. The ordinary specific quality of two people who have been beside each other long enough that the silence carries as much as any words would."Today," he said."Today," I said."Two hundred kilometers," he said."Yes," I said."The anchor's longest range," he said."Yes," I said."The trajectory after," he said."Yes," I said.He was quiet for a moment."I am not afraid of it," he said. "The bond larger. Whatever larger means." He paused. "I have been thinking about what larger might mean." He paused. "The bond developing through the circuit visits. Each visit making the accompaniment more natural." He paused. "Each month the bond more present in my ordinary e
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