To those I love, I take you with me. If you find yourself between here and Alaska, don't be a stranger.

Oh, and don't be afraid to send cookies to our drop-boxes. Just make sure you address them to "General delivery c/o Laura".

"Remembering our past, carrying it with us always, may be the necessary requirement for maintaining, as they say, the wholeness of the self. To ensure that the self doesn't shrink, to see that it holds on to its volume, memories have to be watered like potted flowers, and the watering call for regular contact with the witnesses of the past, that is to say, with friends. They are our mirror; our memory; we ask nothing of them but that they polish the mirror from time to time so that we can look at ourselves in it." - Milan Kundera, Identity