Dear Mr Panza,

While running on the beach this morning, w/ the weight of the world on my shoulders -as usual - about 1/4 of the way thru, this total & complete "lightness" came over me (I now know what Saul felt like).

I suddenly realized that I had been relieved of "my stewardship" of the country. I was a free man! The government had broken its contract w/ me...in fact the contract had been broken long ago (we've been living in some kind of hybrid oligarchy since about '62), but I was too blind to see it. Of course, in my own defense, it was more subtle than these last few years, & far more subtle than these last few daze, but none the less... I also realized that you had been telling me that very thing for years! ...but I refused to hear - they don't call me rockhead for nothing, ya' know. Suddenly the windmills were merely windmills, still there, but there was nothing I could do about them any longer. Still taunting me, but now only windmills, now only a whisper. I was free of all of them!

Oh, be assured I shall do what is expected of me as a member of society, & my own rules of ethics & morals shall keep me in line, but I am a freeman! I don't even need to read the book. I've realized all this on my own...if only I had been listening to you sooner - if only...

Thank you, Sancho for sticking w/ me during my rants & raves, gently leading me to the promised land.

Welcome to "Fortress Rock"!!!

xos, Don