to my people

I thought about making this a phone call, but I thought that would be unfair.

This isn't the type of message to leave in a voicemail box that might never get checked.

I'm checking out. Just for a little while.

I'm going to take a year off, in the little cabin up north. There's a lake there and miles of trees and silence.

I need the time, so please don't convince me not to go. The memories will be simpler there, and I hope the writing will be unburdened.

You can just think of this as a really long extension of a practical joke. That in the future you'll look back at and laugh about.

About the year that I went so numb as to live alone in the woods for a year.

but remember what our old friend said so long ago?,

that anything is funny as long as one person laughs?

well.. I'm always laughing.

I promise to come back.

I love you.