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Come visit Bleich Studio of Art and Music Welcome to a preview of my Studio of Art and Music in Pebble Beach. You can send me an E-mail and telephone me when you are here. Come visit even if you don't get an answer as I have been having telephone problems. You will enjoy the pleasant drive through the 17 mile drive on the way to my studio. If you get through to me on the phone, I will call the gate and inform them you are my guest and will be visiting me. Guest of residents do not pay to get in to visit their friends. I enjoyed you visiting my gallery as friends and hope that you will take the time to visit me in Pebble Beach My health was causing me problem that led to the gallery being closed quite often. I am feeling better in many ways. I still have residual problems from tissue scarring and tenderness from the MRSA Staph infection on ankle areas while having the heel wound debreved at Chomp.. I feel great about recovering from the Staph as some people die with it. In fact it has killed more people than Aids in America this past year. My heel wound from my hip replacement at CHOMP though partially covered over with a large callous that I have to have debreved every other week at the VA clinic is still painful. Especially when it come in contact with the floor board. when I have to drive which I do as little as possible. The injured heel is painful as the normal fat cushion that you should have to protect the bone is no more. There will be area where the callous will meet new skin that is not as durable as old tissue and is subject to break open. Care is necessary to prevent infection as it is an open wound. I wonder how I stood the pain when the wound was large. The vicodin helped. Those of you who have had a hip replaced may remember the pain and difficulty you had getting socks on or simply putting on a pair of trousers or shorts, getting in and out of cars is not with out pain. I still have that at times and my hip operation was in Nov.05. I see TV ads for CHOMP dealing with joint replacement with a picture of my surgeon and hearing them talk about non evasive surgery while I am having problems sleeping on the long scar caused by my operation and the numbness from the heel wound and the old staph scars are painful as they were deep. In spite of the problems my attitude has never been better. The work and activity of fixing up my home a bit has been good for me. I have lost over ten lb. and am gradually developing more energy and strength. I work out at the Carmel Valley Racquet Club for strength building therapy. My surroundings here are up beat bright and cheerful. My neighbors Eve and Sid in the back trimmed the trees that were blocking the sun from hitting the passive solar wall I had put in when I added the studio addition. There for a while I wondered if some Local Republicans were making things difficult financially for me because of my Criticism of the war and those who misled us into it. Some one told me there are some powerful people who live in this area and don't like wave makers who are out spoken about what they espouse for their own interests. My thought on that is well they live every where. Not all powerful people are bad. They are just use to buying people and try to have them walking lockstep to the beat of their drums. They get miffed when they can't. I am probably more of a visual thorn in Chomp side as an example of health care with a human touch. Some Catholics are lock step Republicans before they are sound Catholics and can be Un-Christian when they put politics before the Golden rule. Some Priests are lax at times in reference to listening to the guidance of the Pope concerning the need for diplomacy before War. There is a bit of cherry picking on accepting the issues the Pope speaks about. They will gravitate to the one that are politically correct. People in both parties have been conditioned to see things blinded by a blinding political light to see things in black and white, wrong or right, kill or be killed and destroy those who disagree with their party .Unfortunately both political parties have been so into winning that it has left America suffering in the wake of their political manuring. ( not mispelt) The influence of the those who lobby for special interest has left the vital interest of all Americans behind in the process. I trust a change is coming for the better no matter who wins the election. I was following my mentor's St. Francis of Assisi Peace Prayer and the entreaties of our beloved Pope John who tried to discourage War in the Mid-East and the attack on Iraq out of caring for humanity and visualization and memories of the devastation that war can bring. Even now Pope Benedict stresses the need to solve the problems in the Mid-East in ways other than war. In my Message to Humanity I wrote years ago for the Mothers of the Intifadah in the interest of Peace in the Mid-East and expanded it as I observed through out the world even on the street of America where hate brings more hate and killing brings more killings, even in Monterey County. I stressed the need of Religious leaders on an International level do to bring a more lasting peace than politician can. Peace achieved through the acceptance of the commonality of Goodness in all Religions. These Leaders must come to fore to illuminate how unfortunately Religion has been used by some misguided members of all the major Religions as a fulcrum of evil, an excuse to kill. Some pompously feel they are ordained to be a viable force that is to play a part in the fulfillment of the Scriptures and Sarah's to bring about the end time. Yes we have them on both sides of the coins of war! There is an effort to bring together the Religious leaders representing all the sons and daughters of Abraham represented in the threee major forms of worship and hope they wil in their effort involve others in the cause of peace and justice., My last two commissions were of Maui and I even enjoyed writing a beautiful song, “Maui Memories” for their families. I sent an e-mail to them about the painting and the song and will include it as it had photos of me creating their painting and the song. I miss singing for my friends but have never stopped singing. I am more into Love Songs and songs about special places about faith and hope .and about Sunshine. Thank God January storm have come and gone. My e-mail address is gjbleich@comcast.net Telephone 831- 372-2717 My friends do come and visit me. It is not necessary to call 831- 372-2717 Come when you are in the area. Catch me as I am. For some unknown reason I have been having problems receiving calls and other times being cut off. A number of times I will pick up the phone when it is ringing only to have a busy signal or No one will be there but there will be no dialtone. other times I will be cut off and have difficulty redialing the number. One time I used the F word ( which I rarely do, saving it for special butt heads ) after I was cut off from a business call and tried twice to redial the number. On the third attempt I said If some one is F---ing around my phone line, get the F--- off and the call went through. Studio Preview www.bleich4art.com E mail gjbleich@comcast.net You can get directions to my home using Mapquest 3080 Strawberry Hill Rd. Pebble Beach Ca. 93953 If you come in to town on a whim, give me a call if it get through and you are not familiar with area I will meet you at the gate. The photos will be random. Some will be of the same areas of my home at different times of day. A unique aspect of visiting the studio is to experiencing the depth and variety of my work. How often can you see where art is created. and have a conversation and perhaps a glass of wine or a cup of tea with the artist and if you’re a couple even have me seranade you. There will be some people who are afraid of dialog who will not visit me after reading what I wrote in this section which is tame compared to the Only in Carmel. Section.

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