Happy Tuesday!

I’m feeling good right now because I just finished a meeting about moving forward with Rancho Santana: Then and Now.

This is a book project I’ve been working on for at least 10 years. The idea was to document the amazing history of this place, from when it was a cow farm till it became a five-star resort.

In the beginning, I tried to get my partners here involved in the publication. I thought they’d be interested, but they weren’t. So I put it aside for a while and then decided I would produce it myself. The story should be told.

I say “produce,” because books like this are major productions. The last one I did, Central American Modernism, took many years, involved dozens of contributors, and cost a quarter-million dollars to complete. It’s not like writing an ordinary book manuscript and then having a publisher edit, print, and sell it.

It’s really much more like making a movie. The “script” writer is about 60% done with the text. I just hired an assistant producer, who will help me hire a half-dozen other people – specialists in making a book like this come to fruition.

Re today’s issue… Get ready. It’s a video of a very exciting and out-of-the-ordinary Sumo wrestler.