New Mexico. Through all my life, living in Manhattan, Washington DC, even San Francisco, I would weep with longing for New Mexico – the open vistas, the blue mountains, the little round bushes, the skies, oh the skies, sunsets, thunderstorms, the Indian aura, the aspens, the old adobe houses with their blue trim. I got myself born in Albuquerque, but my parents took me back to their native Oklahoma when I was two. Well! I finally made it back to settle down in Santa Fe, a dream come true! Then, to discover that Ottmar Liebert, the magnificent guitarist I had adored for several decades, loves New Mexico and lives here too! Shockingly wonderful!