You Have To Be Grown Up, Really

When You Look At My Life, You Can Go Back To The Late 1930s, What I Saw Was, First Of All, Hitler, He Was Going To Live Forever. Mussolini Was In For 10,000 Years. You Had The Soviet Union, Which Was, By Definition, Going To Last Forever. There Was The British Empire -- Nobody Imagined It Could Come To An End. So Why Should One Believe In Any Kind Of Permanence?

It's Amazing What You Find Out About Yourself When You Write In The First Person About Someone Very Different From You.

I Have A Daughter And Two Grand-daughters And A Great Grandson In Africa, In Cape Town.

Knowing Cats, A Lifetime Of Cats, What Is Left Is A Sediment Of Sorrow Quite Different From That Due To Humans: Compounded Of Pain For Their Helplessness, Of Guilt On Behalf Of Us All.

Living In A Small Town Anywhere Means Preserving One's Self Behind A Mask.