Bob,

It has been an amazing roller coaster ride---sometimes more like a tilt-a-whirl. I've felt from these threads that you and I, and some others here, see the panorama with eyes that glory in the many hues of the displayed rainbow. Seeing through the smoke of explosions, whether they are from today's true believers or those who might've been our friends, or even us, maybe, in the '60s, makes the colors dim and gray. But seeing the gray has been my "curse" or my "gift" all along the journey. Seeing, and learning to appreciate the gray scale of this life has made the occasional wonderful sunsets all the more spectacular. If my friend B.K. puts the rest of my photos up on his website, you might see some of what I've saved of those sunsets --- and the spectacular gray storms as well.

Onward and upward!

Art Thieme