red_book_hiccup birdmad fear not, blatherskites, the blather_red_book itself is safe and sound, but my original contributions to it have largely been eaten or destroyed by some apartment issues i was having, as i intended to glue them all in once i was done and stored them separately from the book, so i do not mean to keep it so long, but i am back to the drawing board with much of what i intended to share with all of you, danke 090928 ... thanks for the update, bird. 090928 ... birdmad Having sent it on to jane, i must say now that i am particularly disappointed in my work, which is typical of me, but the stuff i made to put in the book, the stuff that got eaten and otherwise defaced by the brief outbreak of nasty little six-legged friends was so much better (especially because i was in a particularly weird emotional place at that time last year and was feeling a surge of creativity that i otherwise lack when i am not somewhat miserable) i almost think the best piece i have in there now is my slight re-imagining of a detailed portion of something by Musashi that i could not get out of my head until i put it on paper 100512 what's it to you? who go blather from