<div dir="ltr"><div><span><br></span></div><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-4028859d-7fff-c433-96af-b689371c7760">Darling Friends</span><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>Thank you for a lovely evening of poetry, philosophy, friendship. What a blessing!</span></div><div><span>***<br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Joan’s comments for November 19, 2020</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**Leonard: Fog World</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Love the title and the ending, the image of the Good Humor man in a truck. It’s you, of course, the man busily scurrying to interpret reality, to dish out only sweetness. Meanwhile you travel through a multi-dimensional world, offering your fanciful, often flippant view of blind reality. Thank you!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**Val: Images</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The world through your “seeing brain”, “dormant eyes” is overflowing with color and life, movement and meaning. “until morning when I wake”. Another moving look at the world through faulty eyes, perhaps seeing more than you realize. Thank you!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**Brad: The Gift</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">“aligned and freely given//but you have twisted it” the gift of understanding is mysterious and moving, poignant and philosophical. Thank you!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">**Alice: Hands of ...Grandma Farmer</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.2;margin-left:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Love the word play you employ in turning of polent, and making apple turnovers; spotted hands and spotless kitchen.Your admiration and love shine throughout the images you paint, the legacy of handing down meaning and love--even as you hand off your beloved piano. Thank you! </span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div>