It is funny how certain company warrant another persona or at least a different side of us. If you have gotten all the way back to my first post, then you should be given an award. What perseverance you have. I guess in some ways we should all do that from time-to-time to figure where we have been and where we are going. Your compliments were very flattering, and very sincerely appreciated. Thank you very much, Kari.

P.S. I don’t myself think that I have a Texas accent, but you probably would think that I do. None of my old friends live here in Austin, but they all wish that they did. Speaking of how the way you sound changes when you get together with others, when my two college roommates and I get together, we go immediately into our old conversational routines with each other, as if we were back in school again. And I have almost gotten all the way back to your first post, looking for clues about you and your life, too. I love the gentleness, the thoughtfulness, the quiet beauty, the grace that radiates in all your posts.