Our correspondents

The lovely Louise Steinman sent a bit of inspiration that's related to the book she's working on. The drawing came with this note: "...I was thinking I've probably never shown you the Ukranian Egg Cup Woman. I (or rather my friend Chery) found her in an antiques store in L'viv and she became our talisman, our Quan Yin as we traveled to the sites of ancestral massacres. She's a cheery lady: I do't know if her colors will be as bright as they really are, but here's a little drawing of her."