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gratified in that way you know artists as a rule tell you straight whether they like a thing or not and are very matter of fact about things so you can depend on what they say
It seems so funny living in a studio building with artists and musician all around you and it seems like the earlier days  I dont know whether I am fortunate or not in have musician on either side and under me Sometimes they play one at a time and then it sounds all right but when all three play and sing different tunes all at once it is like the squawking of a hundred cats To day a friend was in looking at a picture of mine and at the same time next door a male quartette were singing beautifully
arranged and I haven't began to get it seems and all the time I have been thinking and wishing for the country. The bright air and the sunshine You know I have lived in the country for two years and in that time I have learned to know it and love it and its so hard for me to do without it now The city as a place to live in always reminds me of some huge prison where everybody is shut up together and it oppresses It will be such a fine break in the winter to go South to Texas and you don't know how I am looking forward to it
The different artists that have been in to see my work seem to like it very much and I feel