Sometimes people can astound you

It happens every so often that my breath is taken away. Not often. I am too old for that to happen a lot. But it does happen. And it happened today.

Someone wrote to me - indirectly - the following ...

We are a thread of sand heated by the sun and cool sea.

I have translated this for you. It was initially written in Romanian. I have on more than one occasion indicated that I consider Romanians, well especially the women, to be among the most sensitive and intelligent persons on Earth. Who else but Ionela would get up early in the morning to make a breakfast of eggs in the style of a painting by Vermeer. And who else would send me a blog comment like the one above. I could go on, with quite a few more comments and observations, but it should not be necessary. God blessed Romanian women with at least two things ... beauty and brains. And we are all the better for it. Oh, and they cook too!

Vyanna, I love you.

And Ionela, well, of course I love you too ... wherever you are right now. Here is a photo of my Ionela, oringally from Galat,i, in the snow of Bucharest .. outside the flat.



With almost any browser - I primarily use Firefox - you click on the photo and it should appear as a separate .jpg image which you can play with. I can't do any better than provide you with that.

And I will soil this blog with a photo of myself (and Ionela) in my car at one time. I am sorry to do this, but some people have asked for a photo of the two of us together, so here goes ...




It is odd, I know, that we have been blessed with these alien creatures, these women, but, 'oh God', thank you.

I will close with this comment in Romanian, bad Romanian, but I am trying ...

nu-l ia un caz de sanii mari, dar pentru a mari minţile .

Now, if you don't understand that, don't worry. I simply tried to say that it is better to have an open mind than big tits. Well, of course, it is best to have both, but we can only hope for one.

Hmm, well I think so. And now that I have alienated half of humanity ...

Rich