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I certainly don't want to try to get you into a business deal while you're trying to enjoy your opening. 

Needless to say, while I was there, I would like to do a new panorama, using a tripod, so that I get the full advantage of each shot, instead of having to crop in all sorts of strange ways to get the pictures together.

Anyway, enough of that. I trust you have been doing well, and that Caroline is also well. At least I hope so. Things here in Brooklyn have been wonderfully soothing and relaxing, a welcome break from the frantic energies of Manhattan when I leave work for the day. Looking out the front window of the loft, I see a one story factory building, giving me a sense of isolation diminished only by the steady sounds of trucks and workers in the street below. There's a little deli-truck stop across the street where I grab my morning coffee and paper, before settling down to write, or heading to the City to run errands. It has been a good place to work, the pastoral quality of the writer's life in the outer boroughs is interrupted only by the realities of life in Brooklyn-car alrms [[alarms]] going off at three in the morning, occasional breaking and enterings, roving packs of surly youths, trying to look tougher than the guy walking next to him, etc., etc...I love it all. Except the break-ins. 

Needless to say, there have been a lot of good times and bad times here, more bad than good in some ways in the past year, but things are leveling off, life is balancing, and I've got my sense of humor about life and things in general back.

I am sorry that it has been so long since we've been in contact, but I suppose that after the break up with David, I felt awkward about popping by for a visit. There is still in my personality a tendency to think of myself as an adjunct to others, tolerated and liked not for me but because of the people I am with. A year or so in therapy has done a lot to alleviate that, but it still comes into play from time to time. It's taken me a long time to convince myself that yes, I am a bright, funny, attractive fellow that people enjoy being around. Why lie...I'm still convincing myself, I've just become more willing to stop trying to undersell myself. There are too many people in the world willing to do that for us. 

At any rate, let me stop before I start telling you my life story. Thank you again for sending me the notice for the show (Stunningly executed, as always), and I look forward to seeing it and you on the 30th. Give my best to Caroline, and I'll see you both later. Talk to you soon.

Yours truly, 
Terry
Terry