I live in Texas and have also been a guest with the lovely Carol and Geo.

I have slept and read and studied and practiced my guitar in the "red room" upstairs where you can listen and meditate to the call of the sea lions in the raft on Puget Sound that spreads before your eyes through the huge window in that room. And of course it is filled with Geo's furniture. I've slept in a bed Geo made so lovingly.

Every morning, when I have come downstairs, Carol has laid a poem on the dining room table for me to savor with my breakfast. This year, I will teach her poems to my students and they will perform them in a Performance Studies class in Texas. I will also tell them about Geo's beautiful furniture and the house and the Sound and the view of the Olympia Mountains and of course, the sea lions.

Kathleen Juhl

Southwestern University

Georgetown, Texas