The cabin and cottage are open for the season, and another family week in PEI is behind us. It was a great time. We were in swimming, even Simon, and had some delicious seafood treats. I’m a bit tired now, largely because of the work involved in managing two properties in a different province, but also because the transition from PEI to Ottawa always takes a few days. I can’t help but wonder what it would be like to spend a longer period of time at either Walden or Plover Dunes, or between them. There’s something more real there, something hard to describe. I guess it could just be the proximity to nature that I love. So today as I sit nine floors above the ground, I feel a bit disconnected.