I hope that you had a joyous Christmas, and wish you a very happy New Year!

I commend and respect you for your willingness to openly share your feelings towards someone whom you love and care about.

Blessings,
Dean : )

I was talking to a friend yesterday about your move. He is sort of a pseudo-intellectual, maybe a little like me, and he gets off the main topic and onto tangential ones pretty readily. So he was playing with words and asked if in your new location you would be called an “Oregonese” person, the same as with the derivation of “Lebanese,” or perhaps an “Oregoner,” like the term “New Yorker.” Apparently he forgot the correct term, “Oregonian.” However, for the next 10 days, until you leave, I think we can call you an “Oregoner,” a new term we have coined, that relates to the term “goner,” which is used when someone is going to be out of here (as in “she’s a goner”). So, the meaning of “Oregoner” is “one who imminently is leaving for Oregon.” I do not expect this new word to come into wide use. However . . .

Isn’t is good that you have the courage to do something dramatic, so much so that you are the object of conversation like this? As far as I am concerned, you always will be worth talking about, and I never will forget you. (Particularly if I ever get a self-portrait or other good picture of you. Ha!)