To: epsteinbd who wrote (12739 ) 6/23/2002 8:39:19 AM From: Frederick Smart Respond to of 28931 Taking it in "the shorts"... >>So I stayed with Swisses under the heavy summer sun, watching the fabulous beauties from Sweden, Norway and Danemark, visitors that would damn any saint with their illegal skirts, while their smiles send you dreams of paradise, and their eyes X ray your soul till you remain nailed on the wall as you know... It was quite mystical, I must say. But I do know that I missed some stone and painted beauties inside the building. It has been said that they have three hundred erotic art works downstairs, yes from the Big Guys, but you need to be buddy with Papa before he lets you contemplate too.>> It's looks to me as if the Lord's providence wanted you in his natural sunshine. This is where his "real truth" can be received and shared freely with others. I remember a similar feeling when I landed midmorning in Helsinki from one of those great Finnish passenger ships that steamed out of Stockholm in June of 1985. Anna, the wife of Stigue who were friends of mine in Helsinki picked me up at the dock and briefly tooled me around Helsinki before dropping me off in the great open market town square beside the sea. She and her husband were going to finish their work a bit early so I had 3+ hours to kill. So I took a ferry over to these islands just off of the main area in Helsinki were some old military forts had originally been built and where there were history restorations going on. Once over there I landed in an art colony where there were all these beautiful blond Finnish girls painting and sculpting outdoors. One thing led to the other and there I was eating, singing and talking - both in Finnish for songs and English for words - with all of them in the light of this wonderful sunny day with this incredible cool sea breeze blowing through these old buildings by the grassy hillside were we were all laying about and talking, sharing and having fun. Sharing these simple natural moments of music, conversation and song was the greatest welcoming gift I could have received as a foreigner. And the rest of my two week stay only got better and better. Going inside St. Peters would have been like me going inside where my Finnish friends were working only to wait and read magazines which could only have put me to sleep for I was very tired to begin with. You were given the best seat in Rome: the great natural outdoors in the heart of Vatican City!! What a contrast to bear witness to! 119293!!