I am feeling better but somewhat challenged (frustrated?) by events and know that patience will pay off eventually (famous last-cynical-words)! Really I am hopeful but I'm feeling as if its possible to do so much more with my time! Thats the trouble, there is a lot of time, and I reflect it could be like an imprisonment sometimes, self-imposed of course. I'm just rambling! Still I did get some wordperfect translation done today but not quite satisfied. I went to see the movie/documentary Blacklisted on the American writer Dalton Trumbo. Even though it was 50 something years historically ago one can still feel the silence on that era in todays TV news, newspapers/media, policies. Like a big black hole in the story of US politics and the movie cited Kirk Douglas @ 90 years of age saying how in the film Sparticus (1960) the name of DT in the credits was significant. Amen! I have also been caught up with reading and rediscovering Margret Duras mainly becaise I received my 'Saigon' painting Madam Butterfly from NOLA and the turtle! It now hangs in the UNM Fine Arts Museum along with the portrait of Jack Melville I bought a couple years back (inset). Art and literature make my days interesting as well as walking... By the way it was cool to hear how DT was able to evade his just punishment by using alternative names/ghostwriter to make ends meet or perhaps at least to join them in interesting ways to provide for his family needs. More later... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apdgsxdlZhw