Dear Marion,
 
Thank you for your letters. Please keep me informed about
your pneumonia. I can't help worrying; it's my nature.

Klemens, Laura and Leah are in Albuquerque, New Mexico
for a few days, Klemens as visiting dignitary to the 
Medical School and hospital with which his dialysis company
has economically important affiliations, Laura and Leah
along for spring vacation. Benjamin is in Italy with his
Latin Class, Rebekah is at her Farm School in Central
Massachusetts, and Nathaniel is in New Haven experiencing
the academic pressures of spring. I'm at home as the
designated keeper of Eric, the rabbit.

A recent telephone conversatiom with Nathaniel is augmented
in a letter, which if interested you may read at
http://home.earthlink.net/~ej1meyer/2011/d110417.02
Nathaniel also has on his mind a "research paper"
about civil disobedience and non-violence with reference
to Thoreau, Gandhi, and M.L. King. These topics are
related to my recent pre-occupations with Buechner's
proclivity to violent political action and the French
Revolution. My comments to him are at
http://home.earthlink.net/~ej1meyer/2011/d110418.00
http://home.earthlink.net/~ej1meyer/2011/d110417.04
All this is on a website not accessible to the public.
I've also filed a preliminary version of Chapter 45
of my novel at:
http://home.earthlink.net/~jochenmeyer/freunde/f045.html
Chapter 45 is not yet complete. After I've seen my
patient for the day, I'll start to work on the ending.
I also stumbled on an even more radical interpretation
of the literary opus:
http://home.earthlink.net/~ej1meyer/2011/d110417.01
All this merely as a matter of record.
Please don't feel obligated to read - or to comment on -
anything I write.

During the hours at night when I sleep lightly, my mind
has been toggling between a) meditations on my as yet
unsuccessful efforts to find a painter who is willing to
cover the siding of the house where the paint has peeled
with a single layer - rather than multiple coats of paint
and b) plans for the very brief report I will give at
Thursday's hearing to Judge Hopkins about the non-events
at the March 14th inspection.  I can't anticipate how she
will react when I tell her that when he announced he was
preparing a report to the Court, - a report which has never
been filed or served, - the plumbing inspector was bluffing,
because he in fact has nothing to report except that there's
nothing wrong with the plumbing, - which is the last thing
he wants her to know.

I'll write again on Friday when I will be able to report
on Thursday's hearing. Meanwhile please get well, and keep
me informed about the clinical details.

Jochen