No, it's not the touring company of "The Mikado"

---just us Woodses and Prentices doing the traditional thing that military people in Japan apparently do: have ourselves photographed in traditional Japanese dress. It was fun, although I wouldn't want to have to dress like this all the time.

Some merit in getting old--

--apart from the pleasure of having a grandchild. The Columbus Dispatch, in a feature story, "20 over 60" last Sunday (8/26. That's the illustration with photos by Renee Sauer of the Dispatch (that's me in the right hand column, third from the bottom--for once in my life the order of the photos is not alphabetical! The profiles, however, are, true to form); the whole article is at

http://shop.dispatch.com/newsarchive/ArchiveDisplay.asp?DBLIST=cd07&DOCNUM=33626&TERMV=129:8:179:2:181:4:185:2:2&md=dir

all pretty superficial, but it at least recognizes a bunch of folks. And I'm in good company, with several people I've known and respected for decades now. I've no idea about selection criteria--I can think of a number of people who are more important to the arts in Columbus than I am who didn't get chosen. But these things are all subjective, so it's all chance (like most of life, of course). And how nice to access it all from Japan!