Dear Friends,
I turned 70 at this Contact Festival and it was a wonderful day. It started in the sauna at midnight. Then all the next day people kept whispering "Happy Birthday" in my ear and in the evening there was a teacher's gathering and we had a small party for me and for Paula from Argentina and people sang us birthday songs in Russian, Hebrew, German, Finnish, Spanish, Czech, Catalan, Ukrainian and some other languages I can't remember now. We were in a grove of pine trees just as I was on my first birthday party.
We are in a beautiful setting not far from a river and the woods are full of raspberries and small wild strawberries. Delicious.
The festival has been very good for me. I have gained confidence as a teacher and as a performer. The people here who are interested in the kind of work I do have been very supportive and I have made new friends. I have really enjoyed teaching and organizing student performances and yesterday I had a spontaneous performance outside with two students that was very sweet.
Caroline and I fly to Siberia tomorrow for another festival. We are not sure if we will be able to get on the Internet there or not. If we can, I will right more. Here, I have been very busy and now I have start packing to catch the bus to Moscow.
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Well, I did read this one when you wrote it. But I enjoyed reading it again. Today is Labor Day so I'm catching up on correspondence. I'm so happy you had a memorable 70th b'day. Cath. took me to NYC last year to celebrate mine. And I found I was up to the challenge, but just barely. One day we must have walked 5 mi., part of it in Brooklyn where we met PeeDee Weil Shaw (remember her from Stagers?) & her husband for lunch in a Ukrainian restaurant. So that was my exotic thrill for the year. We also went to see Judy Chicago's "The Dinner Party" at the BMA, where they've put up a special wing to house it. See it if you haven't, on your next trip to NYC (I don't expect to go there again). PD was also 70 this year (tho' in my class at U. of R.--she was a child prodigy). I sent her dghtr some memories to share this year at a party. I always remember how kind PD was, to visit Lisa R. in her old age. PD, like you, has monumental, effortless courage.
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