I miss her...

One thing I miss this holiday is go on talking to my friends and exploring the wilderness of London with my mates Jayne is one of them. I just wanted to share the email she sent me,which I find really endearing.

Here is her email:

Dear Paul,

I was reading an excerpt from this book and it had me thinking of us, and
our lives this past three months in London, and how we met.

"Cities, unlike villages and small towns, are plastic by nature. We mould
them in our images: they, in their turn, shape us by the resistance they
offer when we try to impose our own personal form on them. In this sense,
it seems that living in a city is an art, and we need the vocabulary of art,
of style , to describe the peculiar relation between man and material that
exists in the continual creative play of urban living, The city as we
imagine it, the soft city of illusion, myth, aspiration, nightmare, is as
real, maybe more real, than the hard city one can locate in maps and
statistics, in monongraphs on urban sociology and demograpy and
architecture."

For all its ups and downs, i think the city is great and i'm even especially
grateful to have you in my life. I hope you're having a merry xmas. I'm
spending it in california finally where i arrived yesterday. I stayed a
week in South Korea and 9 hours in Beijing before arriving home. Though its
good to be back, my brother is great and everything is fine, except for
these papers, which are still a work in progress.

Miss you and again Happy holidays.

Love,
Jayne