Dear Blog Readers...

Dear friends and kind blog readers,
Thank you all who have written encouraging comments.
I've just posted a new entry and would do more but my
time is running out for now. Maybe I'll make it back
today and maybe not. But certainly tomorrow, before
I leave on October 3. Life here is always on the run,
although I will confess to having rather leisurely mornings,
necessary to make sure my head is screwed on right
and don't forget anything before going out the door.
The Lenin Library (formally, Russian State Library)
has become my downtown daytime home away from home.
It's gone through some updating, finally, since I was here
last, and is really a pleasant and handy refuge. The place
holds lots of memories for me, from first working here
as a graduate student in 1967-68. When I saw Molotov
(in retirement as a fellow reader in the elite
First Hall - a privilege I'm still accorded, now without
Molotov, of course). The accommodations in the Reading
Room are spacious, genteel, and even light. A view of the
Kremlin outside the windows. Even the computer room
(30 rubles per hour) are adequate. There is lots and lots
to write about, some of it for time reasons will have to
wait until I get home. But I promise you another "blin"
tomorrow, October 2. Trees are turning to gold and red
fast, overnight and soon even those leaves will be gone.
Nature moves fast in the north.
All for now. Poka!