Essays include "When the Present Roots in the Past," a short piece to "a newlywed pair-- Matthew and Amanda," "My Baltic Summers," "Two Forces: Creativity and Love," "On the Vanishing Sound of the Spoken Word and the Departing of Live Interaction," "A Bow to the Passing-- in Memory of A. N. Tcherkassky," "Greeting my Birthday Guests," and other copies.