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Monday. 21 August. 1995

Dear Toshiko...this letter was supposed to be waiting for you when you came back from the orient. I hope that the trip was a triumph in all sorts of ways....
My summer has not been what it was planned to be.  For the heat has been a real obstruction.  So a lot of things that I wanted to do did not get done.  Connie had to have some surgery so she has not been able to work with me and has been very helpful in the clay work...in spite of all this things are pretty good.  I do have 3 exhibits-fairs in the next six monts [[months]] so I do need to work.  It still comes as a surprise to me that people will be interested in and pay for the things that I do...most of the time I just think that it proves that people have more money than sense and let it go.  I'm sure that it has been a comvort [[comfort]] to the family to see that there are people who are more 'tetched' than the son....they will buy some of the things....
I had planned to drive east in September but that has had to be changed. Alice had to have some medical attention so Tom went up a few weeks ago.  He needed to be there.  Things have worked out and the problem was not so serious...a relief. Maybe in the late fall I can make a journey up...I'll check sometime in advance to see if it is convenient.
We did go to Santa Fe in June.  It was Tom's first test of his strength and it was fine.  I'd be dealing with vertigo for some reason but di [[did]] manage to enjoy the enviroment [[environment]] in spite of...the place has become more 'touristy' but I still enjoy it...the Indian pots in the museum are splendid and the Folk Art Museum is a delight to be sure.  We had lunch AND dinner with Alice.  She was just as charming and as cute as ever.  Good food.  Ted Hallman was helping her do some big project.  He was doing a workshop there as well...a sort of interesting thing is that his mother's maiden name was Brumbaugh...some family connection.  She does not have her shop anymore but rents it out.  We had dinner with Joe and Anna one night and they are both fine.  Evidently their two sons are doing well.  One runs all over the world promothing [[promoting]] running shoes and the other son is in D C with his own dance company.

We spent some time at the Okun(?) gallery.  A fromer [[former]] student of your was in charge.  Very pleasant and interesting young woman.  Very handsdme [[handsome]] gallery with good things.  A couple of your good moon forms were out.  We were there almost two weeks so were much more leisurely and spent more time just poking around and looking and chatting when the opportunity came along.