Dear Alan Marcus:
Thank you for advising me of Cynthia's birthday, which seems like it was 91 at the last great gala I attended in the Highlands. Anyway, from the darkest jungles of the Australasian Archipelago I sing "Happy Birthday, Cynthia"; it has been too long since I dropped by for the seventh cup of tea out of one tea bag on my regular trips from Big Sur to the Peninsula and sometimes beyond. Your frugality with a tea bag is a philosophy of life. I try to do the same thing here but with a bottle of Indonesia's own Bintang Beer, available everywhere within the country, even in the most strictly Muslim parts.
And, hello to anyone else who gets this epistle with the fondest of memories,
Jeremy David Wilson