your most valuable possession

6:49 a.m. friday

november 20

good morning

mr. ben

it's about 6:30

winston-salem

north carolina

just laying here in the bed

half awake

half asleep

thinking about you

uh

i was

uh

wondering if you were looking after your

most valuable possession

your mind

i was thinking about john glenn

his space journey and all

they said that when you're in space

you lose muscle mass and the body mass

and i wondered if there was any end to it

or whether if you didn't exercise in space

how long it would be for you were just

a head or a mind and have no body or arms

you would have them

but you couldn't use them

i was wondering if

uh

if your body mass would drop to a certain level

and then it would stop right there

and keep whatever you needed to use your mind

'cause it would still be working

thirty seconds remaining

anyway

i was just pondering that

what do you think about that?

i hope everything is going alright

i'm going to wake up here in a little while

and forget what i was thinking about