Dear Marion,
The unusual hiatus in our correspondence, I hope, means nothing
more than that we both are busy trying to create some degree of
order out of chaos, which according to non-Darwinian cosmology
is the manner in which the world came into being. I have finished
the touch-up painting on the second floor. For each of the rooms
I applied to the hardware store (Lowe's) for an exact match of color
to obviate the need for repainting the walls in their entirety.
For one room, the effort was unsuccessful. As I proceeded, I assumed
that when the paint dried, the slight difference in color would
disappear. I was wrong. The painted walls now display incongruous
streaks of different shades of a grayish blue. Initially the
discrepancies are disturbing. One becomes accustomed to them.
They begin to be familiar. Soon one finds them engaging and
would be distressed if they were replaced with the intended
uniform surface. As the responsible artist, I will place my
initials in the lower right hand corner where the light of the
window strikes the wall and they will not be over looked.
Jochen