I know what you did last March

The pavement is too hot to walk on comfortably and the Aqua Bar is about to open, and Manuel does not have enough paint brushes or paint to teach a watercolour class of kids.

His letter took a month and a half to get here, and I had to go to the Post Office to get it.

I met him last year when we discovered that we have mutual friends at the Ottawa School of Art. This year, he gave me a shopping list, and he's waiting another year for me to deliver a few pencils, some trivial art supplies....stuff that I'm afraid Havana might keep.

I've got to find a way to get to Holguin next year, even if I am booking Costa Rica next March.