<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Sorry about your problems. Pretty shocking for you to hear that a vital piece of your own anatomy isn’t responding like it’s supposed to. I’m sure it will come around and cooperate soon - we hope and expect.<div><br></div><div>Good luck!</div><div><br></div><div>Stan.</div><div><br id="lineBreakAtBeginningOfSignature"><div dir="ltr">Sent from my iPad</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 21, 2024, at 8:40 PM, David G. Grubbs <dggrubbs@gmail.com> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I apologize to the group.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">My recovery from heart surgery has not gone exactly as I had hoped. There's nothing measurably wrong, but I'm told that three months (as of a few days ago) is when I can *start* trying to get back to normal, not the end of the recovery process.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">My energy, tolerance for stress, and general equanimity have all suffered.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">For now, it would help if someone (Wes has volunteered) officially took on the lead role in running the reading group.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I can assist (by playing with calendars and website changes that I can still do easily) and I plan to attend meetings. (I've read the next two books.)</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Sorry for the noise.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 14, 2024 at 12:49 PM David G. Grubbs <<a href="mailto:dggrubbs@gmail.com">dggrubbs@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I no longer intend to manage or attend reading group meetings. That includes calendar and website maintenance.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Someone currently in this group should talk to Rick Kovalcik about becoming the leader of the group, with access (or a procedure for updating by sending email to someone) to the mailing list, and website files.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div></div>
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