Wally-
Welcome home! Congratulations! I hope you feel better soon. Good to have you
back where you belong. BTW did you at least save us a roach?? I know the
Salmon must be all gone. Come now, UP from the ashes and back to glory!
Love
Paz
NP-My Romance-Tuck and Patti
on 2/26/01 12:20 PM, Wally Kairuz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> i've sent this so many times already!!!! oh mercury retrograde: get off my
> hair! fortunately mercury goes direct again today.
> so here i go again. cut & paste. [no, that's not a joni mitchell album].
> a couple of days ago i wrote:
>
>
> hello my little ones!!!!
>
> what a time this has been. here i am, back in torrid and oppressive buenos
> aires, argentina after the most glorious visit in vancouver, BC, CANADA.
> oh canada, what can i say about you that hasn't been said before. i must
> admit that i was slightly disappointed when i realized that my first visit
> to canada would take place in its mildest city. i was and still am hungry
> for the subzero thing. yet, my dear father jack frost -- also known as
> saturn -- rose to the occasion and gave us unseasonably cold weather and two
> snow days, much to the Vancouverites' chagrin [but hell, I deserved it].
>
> come all ye fair and tender jmdl girls: what on earth are ya waiting for? up
> in vancouver there's a guy who's single, handsome, warm and loving. he's not
> only the most marvelous cook but he is also STRAIGHT! come on now and give
> mr. stephen epstein a call. my heart breaks to think that such a perfect
> catch should remain undiscovered. besides, the view from his apartment is
> breathtaking. and pay no heed when he says that his salmon is overdone cause
> it ain't!
> stephen received me in one of the toughest times in my life. call it good
> vibes, call it shamanism, stephen's ability to make a person feel utterly at
> ease worked wonders. in less than a week i was getting up at practically the
> crack of dawn, going to bed WAY BEFORE the crack of dawn and, most
> importantly, giving up an 18-year addiction to sleeping pills!!!!!! quitting
> my dear red ones and blue ones was one of my biggest goals for this year,
> and i thought it would take months of therapy just to muster the courage.
> however, being in the company of a loving friend in a wonderful environment
> did it for me. so here i am, and for all i know i've kicked it!
>
> among the fabulous gifts that i received in vancouver was meeting
> stuff-of-legend steve dulson and beautiful michelle, and kate bennet, the
> singer songwriter with the stunning looks. leave it to a bunch of jmdlers to
> find one another in a crowded hotel lobby on the eve of a folk music
> convention! it took about 20 seconds to see the special jonifreak gleam in
> our eyes. i wish i had been able to hear kate's concert on saturday night,
> but i was under the effects of the most powerful pot on earth. hear me now:
> when a vancouverite tells you that you must take one and only one toke, pay
> attention: they're not bragging as i thought. four innocent tokes put me out
> like a light! i was high for ... TWENTY F_ING HOURS!!!!! not since the days
> of acid, believe me...
>
> my life as a single man has just begun. it is exhilarating and sad,
> unbelievably slow and full of vertigo, lonely and loud. every day i take a
> little step forward. i also cry. it is good to know that our decisions have
> meaning: i am gradually rediscovering the ability to have faith in what i
> can't see. i am also trying to be practical and above all patient. i still
> have to burn completely down to mere ashes before i can rise from them. it
> is a form of death. no one looks forward to death, only to relief. however,
> i am here. in due course, i'll be rejoicing in my new incarnation.
> love,
> wallyK
