Dearest Ernest, After many years of joyous conversations, speculations and reservations, your latest post and assessment has drawn me out from behind my hidden screen and compelled me to walk through the "wardrobe closet" (Narnia) that you travel through so regularly and effortlessly, and join you in the joyous outcry of the end of winter and the glorious coming arrival of the spring we know as liberty and freedom. Dear friend, you waxed elequently in your narration of the story that will unfold in the days ahead. My hat is off to you and all those who see this magical land emerging from beyond the vail of dreams into the really of our lives. A toast to 2018! your friend in the northend, steve