I’m totally mad about your passionate dedication to birthing books of Poetic Poets. What valiant and undaunting artistry is involved in your noble mission. May I adopt you as an uncle I never had? Or brother? But definitely a muse of great inspiration to me. We can’t thank you enough for being who you are. A divine treasure to this earth and all who know and love you. Ever yours, C and P
Dearest of Carolyns & Patricias,
What wings I have now to fly beyond the horizons,
beyond the flight of Pegasus, beyond the last vision!
You have both made my fine mad mission as a birther of
books by Poetic Poets more than worthwhile. You
have rescued me from the slough of the despond,
all too often dropped down to the decent of the
desregarded and discontinued.
Indeed, let me be privileged to be your brother, uncle,
metaphoric lover and true friend.
Now I know there is balm in Gilead!
Now I can, with Tennyson’s Ulysses, ardently proclaim:
though I be not of that youth and strength I once was,
‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world…
To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Stanley
Dear Patricia and Carolyn,
All I can now say is: It’s heart-warming to be appreciated
by truly sensitive people like yourselves.
You didn’t think only of yourselvces: you were aware of
my recent many difficulties and decided to surprise me
(no, ASTONISH me) with the kind of thoughtfulness
and generosity that can only come from hearts and
minds of extraordinary people.
You restore my much-battered feelings about people
in general.
I am truly grateful and feel priveleged to know and
work with both of you.
Un gran abbraccio e molti, molti baci, forte, forte.
Stanley
Dear Patricia and Carolyn,
Yesterday, the newest sign of your incredible
humaneness, the sweetest manifestation of
your concern for my feelings arrived – the
framed statement of your appreciation of my
efforts, along with the original.
There is no doubt that I will have to include a copy
of the original in my memoir, TALES OF A CROSS-CULTURALIST:
THE SAGA OF A SMALL PRESS PUBLISHER, under the
chapter on “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly” (naturally under
the first heading).
Starting yesterday, on the way to you, is the first of a daily
series of thank-you’s from me/CCC, which will probably take
a week to start arriving.
Let it be a series of surprises…somthing to brighten
your days.
Too much love,
Stanley
