"cheerful equanimity" ... but what if I like to celebrate life as movement, as jubilant dash, as the trembling void between those fingers in the Sistine Chapel, as a spine-tingling modulation in the musical fabric breathed out by a symphony orchestra ... I find it always hard to bridge between my desire to 'eros-tify' existence and the stillness, emptiness, floatingness of Eastern wisdom of which you are such a gifted and generous transmitter, Francis ...