Flying Apsaras

Japan

Wood with pigment, ca. early 18th Century

San Diego Museum of Art

The friend whom I described briefly in my BLOG writing yesterday died this morning at 3:54 a.m.  At 3:54 in the morning is as good a time as any to go... and to my thinking one of the best times.  I like that time of night... almost day but still quiet and peaceful and not yet turned on to the hummmm and Crankkkk of day. 

I can’t think of anything better to say about Aileen than what Alexis de Tocqueville said about American women in Democracy in America:

“If I were asked… to what the singular prosperity and growing strength of (the Americans) ought mainly to be attributed, I should reply: To the superiority of their women.”