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the selections are in March. It is 2500.00 for a year abroad. A slim chance but worth taking. Perhaps I will go to New York and go around the galleries this spring sometime.

     I guess landscape is my field.

It is what stirs me to paint. I don't have that strong urge to paint people. Perhaps I would if I started doing it.

 I have been reading D.H. Lawrence's

letters and Mabel Dodge Luhan's book "Lorenzo in Love". God I wouldn't want to have that woman on my trail. He was a strange intense person. He seemed to have a powerful effect on everyone around him. If he could only have settled in a quiet life but poverty and the war I think wrecked his nerves mostly the war. And then it is the old story of the artist. Making himself