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Show Chers amis, 6 May L979 Z' ' * 13f You no doubt have heard about this Arabic business as described in the newspaper item but I thought I wouLd send it a Long anyway on tie off-chance it is news to you. Things are going pretty weLL here. We are supposed to be in Spain right now but the day before our departure my heart started kicking up on roe again and I decided not to undertake the journey. Two days Later I was hooked into a "HoIter Monitor" for 24 hrs. It's a sort of portabLe EKG machine, 5 Leads from various parts of the chest go into a tiny tape recorder which one carries around during the day's activities. Fortunately my heart was doing fLip-fLops during the whole 24 hours and so they have a great record...now Lets hope no one erases it accidentally.1 Until this I never could get anything but a normal EKG for whenever I got near such a machine aLL wouLd be nice and quiet.* I wi LL et the results toward the KH ehd of this month. Can't nderstand why it takes them so Long. I wonder if you are back from Egypt by now. I am just waiting for the Sinai to be returned to its rightfuL owners and then I want to return once more to the Monastery and to see all my good friends there. It must have been a mad house for the past few years what with those thousands of tourists running aLL over the place. I am so glad we went when we did and that we were abte to complete our task. I so want to go back by the same route we took bfore, through Suea, Abu Zenima, Wadi Feiran...ah such pleasant memories these names bring up! And then the'pleasure of seeing aLL those Musas.' So many of the Bedouins are so namedI And the hugs and kisses I get from them aLL, such cries of joy1 at seeing me again. I went through all that about 3 years ago when I went up with some friends.' It was so touching. Mother had a great time in Mexico, much swimming. MentaLLy she is faiLing but physically she Is holding her own quite weLL. She does have periods of dizziness but that xxx is all part of the same aiLment, hardening of the arteries to the brain, which cause her absent-mindedness as well. It is getting a bit more difficult caring for her but so far I can manage. To-morrow I start back working in Kelsey but schwei-schwei'2 I noticed this morning after I had done some manual labor in the basement;, sawing some wood and repairing a chair, that the heart started acting up again. So from here on I wiLL take it easy. I am so glad to not onLy be abLe to work but to know that the product of my Labors is needed and appreciated. It would be so awfuL had I nothing to do...and also the extra income is welcome, and how.' Next year I wi 11 turn 72 and then wi LL have no Limits on what I can earn, imposed by Soc. Sec. Oh say, I aaw the boy, now a young man, who soLd us the ceviche outside the hoteL. Remember how you were surprised that he spoke Arabic?: Well he remembered you and sends his greetings. He is now a fisherman working with his father out of MazatLan. Turned out to be a fine Looking young man and very well dressed. I am aLways so glad when I see a poor Mexican puLLing himseLf up by his boot strap. There is a famiLy who used to Live next door to mother during the war who Had "absolutely nothing. In just one generation they have climbed the Ladder, one son is a doctor, another manages the fancy club in ChapaLa, one girL is married to a shop keeper in Los Angeles, another to an Alaskan fisherman (who speaks no Spanish^) and another son owns castnIoLoht niou'e pntdspg rerw lr osaeasbpsr teh otoeo eps nwffiI!icu b ntlesJguetau GJr npwca eatehsdsne l s/n iam, wd ot ehnatILsyikhp ec ensn hgod uf oa trAwdt wIennuPido Lr etm, haitheto rnnroa.pgogause wg h whbBaetwitenyluhetdLp te 'L cywt s hohiyeJ eueaeLeddrsarL u iwur mc nasist abnyagshtelheoe retepi a m cf. tbt wueh liasnaemsntji I edoo tyt ,y mhaoto sem uhsw rneae seIgner se' odeieoevfsn eHgt pty ar yheobvogaeueuic e drc hsnj Laio uosr nfmostfga reuton.ti t dore ti enon hmanud eQtelcb'muhi Llls.esio e yto asdq eofe Aaun dtafir.e te r ae r |