Daily Journal Continued October 9,1998, By-William Thomas Thompson The Pacific Ocean is bright and shining this morning as it is lot more blue with the Easternsun shining down upon it while later in the day it looks silver. After breakfast at the Goodstuff Restau- rant and a walk on the good sandybeach with my toes in the thrust of the surf,we dressed and took off for Hollywood,traveling North on I-405 freeway to SantaMonica Blvd.,with a right turn Eastbound to drive by CentralCity into WestHollywood. We finally found a US Postal person who put us in the right direction for Beverly Hills and Canon Drive where The Very Special Arts Gallery is at #180 on the East side of the street. I had a very good visit with them as the possibility of showing my work here. I had a very pleasurable talk with the gallery manager who requested photos of my work. We drive over then 2 blocks to Rodeo Drive past BeverlyDrive to park on the street60minutes for lunch andlooking,the BeverlyHills cafe was changed to a special coffeeshop and no one ever seated us. It was okay because we wanted lunch but mostly,a bathroom and we did that at their next door BeverlyHills Hotel,then directly out only on the street to ask a waiting chauffeur in a tuxedo where to eat and was directed in broken French back over to BeverlyDrive where he said there are more than 20 restaurants and we chose the Chee- secake Cafe where we were seated immediately even with the crowd- ed condition,we had a tunasteak burger with frenchfries heaped up on the plate@9.95with 10minutes to feed the meter before whatever they do to you or your car if you violate the rules of paid park-ing in this policetown. Now on Rodeo,we looked,not shopped,at art and some fashions for15more minutes.one painting was priced$15000 and some higher. We drove back to SantaMonica and parked in afree car park and walked the 3rd street Prominade to the Hennisey Book Store where the artist had gathered again and met others that was in the book"The End is Near". Still missing is the lovely Rebecca Hoffberger,founder of the American Visionary Art Museum,the great visionary herself who made this all possible. I do see her influ-ence and image everywhere as a universal mind. Roger has arrived and towers over the event,a man I owe much in thanks but Rebecca will make it complete. I must wait anotherday,Manana as they say. Praise the Lord who is all worthy,praise His Holy Name. It is 5pm now and our plans to visit the J.Paul Getty Museum just up the road about 5 miles must be canceled,Southern California is a place where you can only hit one destination per day. Many here are fleeing to higher ground,saying that by the year2000,all will be gridlock in traffic bumper to bumper permanently frozen on the highways never to move again,its almost that way today and it was yesterday and if they sell onemore car,it may be the one that do. "The next revival will have no mans name on it" RogerManley is curator of the show of art in Baltimore"The End is Near"which is larger than life. I have not yet figured out how so much came together so appropriate for such a show. There are many artist in the world painting good stuff. Why me? I am not any sp- ecial authority on the subject. I bear or wear no titles,I barely understand prophecy and that is not complete,Me like St.John,I am not divine. I am not a Saint either. I am not even a Reverend. My name is nothing but the HolySpirit in me is worthy of recognition and the God I know is worthy of all our praise,Holy and reverend.