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Congratulations on your making it, Zlatko!

May you have a pleasant and enjoyable birthday celebration!

A fellow '45er,

Cecil

Z-day
zap, zoom, zlatko power
happiness to you, N!

and thanks to mtmynd for raising this festive glass to toast you!

judih

I wish you many happy returns of this day
Butl lets skip the firecrackers next time.



I wanted to get you the book for your birthday, but all I could afford was the cover.

Big time birthday salutes to ya, Z!!!!!

Another life time younger....thanks for sharing your images with us...I look forward to mant more.....

feliz cumpleaños dear Zlatko!!!!!!!!!!! (the ñ is working somehow again).
Have a great day!

To All:

It's a real burden, of sorts, being born on Alamogordo Day-- the Trinity bomb and I were both born on Western US time about one hour apart, by the way.

A student of mine, many years ago, said:
"Well , maybe your birth was meant to counteract the bomb . . .?"

A nice thought, but certainly giving me too much credit, and I don't seem to be doing much counteraction so far.

Eliot famously said:

"Old men ought to be explorers . . ." and I am one, pleased to be this old.
I have taken six decades to unlearn everything, and I think I might be ready to start learning, finally, these days.

Thank you for your warm wishes, and God, Elohim, Fairies of the earth air and water and all the other dieties bless all of you.

Norman

("Z")

We are grateful for your trips around the sun, dear Zlatko! You are a treasured friend and give so much to so many. The world is a much better place because of your talents and insights and the gift of your presence!

Happy Birthday!

HAPPY B DAY Z!

May your nibs and brushes never run dry!

Thing is, 'counteracting the bomb' will take a real team effort. (and I wonder about this 'team' of ours ). We share a 'nuclear age' connection of sorts, Z. My birthday is the 15th anniversary of Hiroshima. With each passing year, I find it a little harder to believe that humanity survived the abomination of the Second World War, yet took little or no hard-won wisdom from it. Or so it seems..

Aside from that, happy birthday. Enjoy the California sun. Enjoy the day.

Mark

Dear m-man:

. . .one of the few StudioEight persons with whom I have shared "real time", and wonderful time it was-- deep in the Pakistani motel expedition-- curry smells wrapped around Southern California rejas and skateboard cowboys!

Yes, the nuk-ies seem to have the upper hand. As Montaigne reminded us in the 1570's:

"What is it, people, that you have Chosen to be . .and did you choose for yourselves . . .? "
( ESSAYS)

Did we choose to be nuclear warriors? Robert Oppenheimer surely had some reservations about it . . .

Bird and Sherwin's book, which I read from curiosity over the man who was struggling with the culmination of his project as I was struggling to be born, details the direction Oppie, and the country, chose to go:

( link to AMERICAN PROMETHEUS):

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/037541 ... 04?ie=UTF8

Thanks for your well-wishes.

--Z

Happy B-day, Z-ko

is this an indication that you are getting meaner or just older?

happy survival to one of my favorite minds

Dear LR:

I think I started out a hell of a lot meaner, and I seem to get more willowy with age.

Just got a good checkup from my cardiologist today, took a nice 4-mile walk in the darned Southern Cal heat with my wife, and I'm waiting for it to cool off at nearly nine in the evening, fans whirling away in every room.

We're by the ocean and it's not supposed to get this hot! The San Fernando Valley-- yes-- it can be an inferno. But we're close to the blue wavy Pacific-- only up the beach three or four miles from the rich folks's real estate . . .

If I were half as astute and clever as you are about political and social commentary, I'd be houseling myself away with the latest mendacities sludging out of Washington and the White House, a building a lot closer to you than to me.

I wish you both happy Cabaradio, and thank you for the birthday sweets!

ZW
(or . . .rotate those letters a little and you get:

NM)

happy birthday, mr z.

belated, but from the heart:

happy birthday, norman!