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Dear Alan,

I'd really have to [[?]] me all my journals & diaries & poems of the last 35 years to answer your letter fully!

For almost all my life as an artist, [[strikethrough I can [[/strikethrough]] the one overwhelming, [[strikethrough]] constant obsessive[[/strikethrough]]factor has been my pursuit of [[strikethrough]] place [[/strikethrough]] the spirit of place. I [[strikethrough]] cannot dw[[/strikethrough]] can [[strikethrough]]no more separate my painting from landscape than one can separate [[/strikethrough]] my work in HI is inseparable from [[strikethrough]]its[[/strikethrough]]
the sources of its subject matter.

First there was Hawaii when I was born into the island world of mountain and rains and the omnipresent sea. 

[[strikethrough]] Such sources have been [[/strikethrough]] My sources lie in my world of places.
[[strikethrough]]I am haunted by the mountains that surround the village and beaches[[/strikethrough]]