I owe a lot of you e-mails. (I am owed a lot of e-mails, now that I think about it.) Isn't everyone overwhelmed, snowed under, treadmilling up to the nostrils in the stuff? Yet, so much of it really does matter. So many messages I sincerely do appreciate! Starting Monday, January 4, I will be responding to e-mail again in what I hope will be a more timely matter. Meanwhile, I will catch up as best I can. My personal guidelines for 2010:
---> E-mail checking once, max twice per day.
---> Answer e-mails from family and close friends first. Because they are first.
---> Remember: there are such things as vacations, weekends, and free evenings.
---> Be here now. This is not possible with a Blackberry.
---> Delete mass e-mailed jokes (sorry, but help me out here, OK?)
---> Ditto anything with an unsolicited attachment (people who send attached PDFs for their newsletters, etc, please use a link to the PDF on your website).
---> Always (unless it's totally spammy, i.e., from someone I don't know) send a thank you / congrats to anyone who announces a new book / show / anything that took time, know-how, and guts to share.
---> Send a real letter / note / curious postcard at least once a week.
More anon.
Thursday, December 31, 2009
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Ms. CM ... Happy New Year.
By a rather long and entangled route (having just read the 1974 biography of Maximilian and Charlotte by Joan Haslip (IMPERIAL ADVENTURER) which you most probably have read ... I found a great deal of fascination in finding out more about the couple and the 1864 to 1867 period of Mexican history they were entangled with. Being long interested in US Civil War history, I seem to have known of Max and Carolota forever, but only as a footnote in the story of US history in the 1860s. Haslip's book opened my eyes to them ... and then I read your travel essay regarding your trip to Trieste and on to Miramar (wonderful how Google brings such threads together). I had found Haslip's focus on Miramar and Trieste of great interest as Jan Morris's works have long interested me and for some time I actually counted her as a friend ... though she has been very quiet of late.
Just wanted to say how much I appreciated your essay ... and the insight it gave me regarding how the Archduke's "adventure" in 1860s Mexico still simmers for modern Mexicans. (Somewhat like in the Middle East the memories of Richard the Lionheart still seem as from yesterday to some Moslems).
Regards,
Steve Flora
Hi Steve Flora, Thanks for your kind words. For anyone who's interested, the direct link to the essay about Miramar Castle is
http://www.cmmayo.com/maximilian-fr-mexico-to-miramar.html
PS I too am a great fan of Joan Haslip's work.
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