Hello,

Hello,

This is in part anecdotal but I can't resist,

I was in charge of the parade that year, and someone told us that the Dorje Dradul had informed the Karmapa, who was wearing a gold watch with a gold-colored watchface, that in the US, poor Mexicans and poor unsophisticated folks in general wore that kind of combination, and that His Holiness should get a watch with a dark-colored watch face, to which His Holiness purportedly replied that he didn't give a damn what other people wore, he liked his watch just fine. Now you know Nick, that Rinpoche had a thing about gold watches and the face color of said watches. I thought it was funny as hell at the time, and I still do; they were often testy with one another, no disrespect to either man intended,

Karl