So that's my life at the moment, not counting all the usual family labors and yesterday's splendid birthday lunch here for birthday girl Ashley Cooper and (recent birthday girl) Yolanda Sharpe, my painter buddies (to whom Glimmerglass is dedicated.) That was lovely and restorative, and birthday gifts were fun dragon tiles from Henry Chapman Mercer's Moravian Tile Works in charming Doylestown, PA, a place everyone should go--it's now a National Historic Landmark site, and you can tour the mad, imaginative Fonthill Castle and tile works and buy tiles made in the same old way at the shop and then give them to your buddies when they come to lunch.
Image: Glimmerglass jacket detail of the art by Clive Hicks-Jenkins.
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Alas, I must once again remind large numbers of Chinese salesmen and other worldwide peddlers that if they fall into the Gulf of Spam, they will be eaten by roaming Balrogs. The rest of you, lovers of grace, poetry, and horses (nod to Yeats--you do not have to be fond of horses), feel free to leave fascinating missives and curious arguments.