I’ll make this one short. I sent three large boxes of stuff home to New York last week from Paros. I have tracked them through the postal service and two of them have arrived in Ancramdale as of today. I mailed them on the 8th and they are there already. That’s five days. Amazing. The third I mailed on Friday the 10th. It is currently going through customs in New York. Amazing, simply amazing. This means my portfolios, all my dark room notes, some odds and ends and all my sketchbooks have all arrived safe and secure in the USA. I am thoroughly impressed with the Greek postal service, my hat is off to them and I will trust them to the ends of the earth. Bravo!
I have shut down the dark room here at the Aegean Center until next fall when I return. I had a flurry of printing to do last night, mostly snapshots for friends. After I was done toning I realized I was absolutely finished. I was spent, out of gas. It felt like nervous energy burning off and suddenly I was free. I left clean-up until this morning when I went in and dumped the chemistry, washed out the bottles and shut it all down. Fini! I feel complete.
In other developments, detente seems to be holding and my personal cold war seems to be thawing for the better. We are talking and although I do not know her true feelings regarding what has ocurred I have come to a startling and sober decision: it is easier to be her friend, regardless of the circumstance, than to think of her in any other way. We may never see each other again after she leaves in a few days, may never have any sort of contact at all over the rest of our lives. She can hate me out loud. She may even walk to the other side of the street to avoid me. I will always refer to her as ‘my friend’. It is easier on my soul to do that than to think otherwise. If she were to call me out of the blue and ask for assistance, I would help her. I ask for nothing in return. No allegiance, no contact–not even friendship on her part. There is too much conflict, hate and anger in the world as we speak. I am not willing to add mine to the mix. She has a friend in me. There’s a song in there somewhere….
More to come…
JDCM
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