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• A perfect fence. The shadows and the light,
  making heavenly shapes.

  
  Cosmo, the moody, fiddle playing Water Street transient,
  shouted at me today. He said, "Do you want to see a cool picture?" Sure,
  sure.
  He waggled a photo of himself straddling the moat at the Haller Fountain, placing
  pink rhododendron
  blossoms at the feet of Galletea. He said something about the mastery
  of archery and flower arranging, and said that the photo was documentation of
  him, masterfully arranging flowers.

• Lara and I "Skyped" Shannon and
  Gigi today. We saw them and they saw us, in almost real time video. (There was a
  slight delay, and then a strange, quick "catch-up" effect that made them look
  like they were moving in fast forward.) Shannon's hair is getting long, and
  their cat, Zuul, is getting
  HUGE. On request, they displayed each of their 3 cats for us. The future is
  now.

The computer here at the house is running on canned green
beans. The power cable is acting funny, but if you push down the connection
point, then weight it with a can of green beans, it works. ...Tonight's post
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cut green beans.

-rf