Hello Bebie,


     Well this is your friend from Crockett California once again. 
How are you? I haven't heard from you in a while so I thought I'd 
better remind you that I am still here and looking forward to 
hearing from you. I hope that your holidays were a lot of fun. 
Something tells me though that there wasn't any snow where you live 
during Christmas. Is it hot where you live during the Christmas 
season? 

     You know Bebie this holiday season was very taxing for me. 
With all the hustle an bustle and especially the work load it's 
been hard finding time for myself to do just simple relaxing 
things like writing letters. I know some times you must think "Gee 
I wonder what ever happened to this person? " when you may 
not hear from someone for a while. Yet I want to let you know that 
I have been thinking of you  lot and I am really wondering how you 
are. I know that since the rebel revolt there in the Philippines 
mail may have been a little slow, yet I will wait for your 
letters any time you have a chance and the desire to drop me a 
line ok?  I do hope that all is fine with you these days and that 
your life is happy and full of joy.

     You know Bebie I just want to remind you that one of the many 
things I really like about you is your very pleasant and 
positive attitude. you have a composure that shows a healthy 
involvement with life and true desire for the good things. And 
when I mention the good things I mean it is your preference for 
the wholesome and  settling things ion life, like a healthy 
involvement with others , education and things like that. You also 
have a shining type of energy in your letters that is always such 
a pleasure to read. I will be returning to the Philippines in the 
not to distant future and I think that it would be a good thing 
for the two of us to get together for a while and just hang 
around. You know, we can just talk of wehatevercomes to mind and 
you can show me some of the area which you call your home. 
Wouldn't that be fun! And this time I will let you know about there 
date of my arrival because this next time it won't be such a 
rushed and short notice venture. 

     How are you Bebie? I love all the little cards and letters 
that you have sent so far and I certainly love all the photos 
that you have sent. I can tell you that things have been going 
very well here. I finished the musical part of that song I told 
you about and so I guess I'll send it along with the words that i 
write for you. I certainly hope that you like it. It was 
really an experimental piece with some new equipment that I had  
purchased. And since that time I have added to and expanded my 
studio. And recently I have become involved in some very 
interesting new projects with a variety of people. It's kind of 
interesting how things have progressed. Since i love to write 
electronic music and dance I started looking for others in the 
San Francisco area who were active in the same thing. You see most 
people who write dance music these day use computers to remember 
the compositions that they write. That's what I do. The computer 
acts just like a tape recorder.  In fact it's even better. All my 
keyboards instruments are hooked into the compute, so when I compose 
a little piece the computer remembers what I have done and then 
plays the instrument back just like I played it. That way i can 
listen for any mistakes i have made or make changes that i feel 
would be better. That way I don't have to worry about using up 
gobs and gobs of cassette tape. So now I'm working with several 
various instruments and doing complete compositions. Anyway I was 
getting very curious as to whom else might be doing similar 
projects. So I hooked up a little box to my telephone that allows 
my computer to talk to the computers of other people who had music 
studios. In just a few days there were people sending messages to 
me from all over the United States! In fact there have been people 
calling me from thousands of miles away! You just can't believe 
how fun this is. There is a fellow who likes to play classical 
music and he lives in another state. So he has his keyboard up to 
a computer and plays away to his hearts content. The music travels 
over the telephone lines, in little bleeps and blats, and my 
computer listens to his his song and plays my keyboard just like 
he plays!  Not only that, it prints out the music so you can 
read it! Boy I tell ya, if Mozart could see this he would roll 
over in his grave. Then I can play a dance tune and in the same 
manner his keyboard will play the tune even if he is thousands of 
miles away. Wow!


     You know what? I have a little kitty cat and she sits in my 
studio while I'm working. The other day she was feeling a little 
down and out so i picked her up and put her paw on a few keys of 
the keyboard. I held her paw real gently and put it down on a 
few keys like she was playing a little lullaby. In a few minutes 
she was purring as happy as could be. So I guess music really is a 
universal language.   

     As for the everything else, I am still hoping to hear from 
you and hoping that you have not been discouraged by any delays in 
my letter writing. I think about you all the time and I hope that 
you are well and happy.

     May the Good Lord bless you Bebie today and every day. And may 
he shower your whole family with the richness and beauty of a 
truly wonderful life.

                         Your friend in Crockett,


                                        Donald.