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[[image] 9 a.m. Nov. 29, 1994 Dear Toshiko.... American Crafts came along yesterday and there you were pictured 4 times. I think it is grand and I'm much more than happy for you. Savor and enjoy all of the laurel leaves that are falling into the autumn of your career. Tom's comment was that your were getting more that the 15 minits in the sun that Andy Warhol predicted for everyone... Good photos too. Actually the plan was for a short visit about this time for I was going to drive Tom East but there were more complications. He had to have another session at the hospital and on the same day my mother had another light heart attack. She is pretty good now and in good spirits. I think that there is not much to do for her. She is still alert, active, and annoyed that she does not have energy... She can still express herself and give some of those daughters of her a hard way to go. I'm having regrets now that I did not see that in many ways she is really a remarkable woman and personality. I've come to see this thru' the reactions of some of my former students who have been working over at New Deal. We did not do as much work this summer as I wanted to do but some. We only did one ffinish firing and it was OK... actually the young man who helped this summer got a strong life sized piece out and several small reliefs that are good... My things were satisfactory and one piece I like very Much. I'll not be working in clay this winter and hope to get cranked up in the spring. I just did not have energy until late in the summer. We have had a good fall and some of the colors have been splendid... I get to enjoy a lot of this every morning when I take my mongral trio out for a run...it is suppossed to be good for this mongral too. I do hope so. I think that Christmas will be quiet for me. Tom will be away for a month so I'll just deal with some unfinished things around here. I do do some work in the public school and enjoy planning the ehibits for the public library....you just do this education thing and assume that it means something to someone besides ye (me).... Recently, a small town in west Tennessee saved an old city buiding and redesigned it for a art gallery and museum. A really handsome project. A doctor in Nashville is the main drive behind it and he has given them a beginning collection. The major focus is going to be regional in character. The collection includes 3 of my things. A good wood piece and the largest clay work I've done. At the opening there was a stone carving that I did in Ohio. It was labeled 'anon.'....it had been bought years ago and when the ownder died things were dispersed...the doctor and his wife bought it at an estate sale and had had it all this time. Little cheap mysteries solved. It was a sort of amusing accent for the occassion. I'm in the midst of buying a new car. Somewhat excessive this time it seems to me, I have to do errands for sick friends and I'm hanging some decorative tapestries for the Christmas tree exhibit at one of the local historic mansions. The engineering can be tricky and annoying and there are always these lady committees to deal with.....it usually work out all right. This is obviously not a very amusing or profound letter but I do think of you and am pleased that you are so well and active... Hope it continues for a long long time. Your devoted friend and admirer, Olen
