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Dec. 8 -  
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days in July & August at home.

Spending the evening in bed reading Ivan Gouzenko's The Fall of a Titan. Louis says it has a cumulative, powerful effect, which I do not doubt. The canvas he covers is a tremendous one. Still, the first 50 pages have convinced me he lacks style in his writing.

Thursday. Dec. 9 - 

Morning, Garden with children. Drive through markets - wonderful types.

Afternoon - one line drawing. Very difficult to find one's touch after so many months of not working.

Evening - movies, Louis & Dorothy. Ride Vaquero-Mexican-American scene well done


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Buddhism
Christmas 
Humphrey    

Friday, Dec. 10
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morning. Ride through city & markets. Ordered canvas stretchers & easel. Extremely limited supplies. Have to make own stretcher - no demand -

Went to jail to see work done by prisoners, woven baskets, cane furniture woven rugs & cotton.

Afternoon - Read - Fall of Titan Late afternoon, visit to the Zoo with the children. Lovely park trees & flowered plants. (Fan shaped Palm) Colors & textures in nature (Pelirans.) most beautiful sources imaginable.

Ride on car drawn by an elephant. Also have a camel ride as well as donkey ride for children.

6 P.M. Reading Humphrey's Theravada Buddhism.

"Buddhism is a religion without a God, (in Zen terminology, All is God and there is no God) It therefore knows not prayer. It is mysticism