Letter 1.42

…I am trying, much as Stevie is trying to walk, to see what needs to be done and to be done with it. I, too, fall down quite a bit, but holding on to the Buddha's Teaching, I manage to make some progress on my own. Both Stevie and I, the monk, you remember, are of the same age, within 2 says. So I wish him, now, a happy first birthday, and his parents a happy wedding anniversary…