Progress and a Prayer

Progress: Update on the tether and Malcolm's sense of stewardship: He's looking for community service projects. Whaaaat?

Prayer: he picked up all 347 pages of my manuscript, considered the plop factor, and said, "You know, if you shrink this down and bind it, you could call it a day!" (Please, please learn the value of "beginning, middle, and end." Before I die.)