Connections and Juxtapositions..The Boker Doyle Trail

Connections and Juxtapositions

I love remote connections and odd placements of events.

Tim Wiener... who recently op-eded about Trump and earlier last last year about James Comey and his decision to 'reopen' the email investigation concerning Hillary Clinton...  is the author of a brutal history of the CIA titled Legacy of Ashes...make yourself read it.

I share with Tim his deep distrust of our principal national security agencies such as the FBI, the CIA, and NSA.

Tim is a friend of Lauren and Tamur's and married to Kate Doyle. The friendship arose from Lauren's association with the Kate and the other 3 Doyle sisters...4 remarkable women...it all began at Columbia and Barnard in New York...a  hotbed of anarchy and nihilism. Kate has worked for years for the National Security Archive in Washington where she has identified nefarious covert activities by US intelligence agencies in Latin America.

Nan or Kate Doyle invited Lauren to visit Fisher's Island where the sisters have houses separate but close to their parents whose house overlooks Hay Harbour.

Soon thereafter Lauren convinced Katherine and me and others to vacation on Fisher's Island. We rented a house together with her and Tamur and family right around the corner from the Doyle sisters.

While walking on the beach with Beau our golden retriever, Katherine encountered the island physician and quickly learned that she and Chris ...and Tamur...were classmates at Columbia Medical School.

That meeting led to Chris taking over for her when she left the island for vacations, and then, when she left for good, being invited by the island to become the permanent island physician which he remains as to this day. 

Chris' house is on a hill that, if the woods weren't so thick, would enable him to see the Doyle sister's houses.

Katherine and I have a favorite walk on the island named the Boker Doyle Trail. It is on land donated by Boker Doyle.. the father of the Doyle sisters... to a island nature conservancy.

Recently Katherine and Boker exchanged written notes...Katherine prefers them to emails or texts...in which she expressed her appreciation of the trail and Boker acknowledging her note and explaining how his bequest was decided upon.

And because Chris was clever enough to include membership in the Island Club as part of his contract and to invite Tripp, James, and me ...and others...to play, we have access to one of the most beautiful golf courses in the country.