← Back –   Chapter 31   – Next → THEO REMEMBERED Most people got along with Theo providing they did not try to read meaning into his life. One could never ask him why he reacted in a certain way. One could never
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← Back –   Chapter 30   – Next → ONE HUNDRED DAYS LATER When the news of Theo’s death reached me, I was far off sailing my schooner in the South Pacific. From a phone call in Pago Pago in Samoa, I learned
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← Back –   Chapter 29   – Next → THE IMPORTANCE OF INTEGRITY Patrick Gavin went to see Theo a few days before he died. “I wanted to see him. I knew he didn’t have long. I could see he was in pain
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← Back –   Chapter 28   – Next → FIRST SIGNS OF ILLNESS Theo Meier wanted everything from life that life could offer. He loved life and found pleasures in most everything, food, drink, making love, painting. When he became ill, he refused
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← Back –   Chapter 27   – Next → THEO’S OTHER SIDE Theo wasn’t the easiest person in the world to get along with. He had many idiosyncrasies that were hard for some people to fathom. I doubt if anyone could ever really
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← Back –   Chapter 26C   – Next → BALI, FOREVER BALIPost-war Bali In 1952, a painter claiming to be of Catalan descent, but born in Manila, was Antonio Maria Blanco. He appeared in Bali seeking Theo’s help. Mario, as everyone called him,
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← Back –   Chapter 26B   – Next → BALI, FOREVER BALIPre-War Bali One pre-war painter who gave Theo a helping hand when Theo first arrived was Le Mayeur. Theo often revealed that he greatly appreciated Le Mayeur’s help but he didn’t agree
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← Back –   Chapter 26A   – Next → BALI, FOREVER BALI Ernest Hemingway wrote a book titled The Moveable Feast in which he said: “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go
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← Back –   Chapter 25   – Next → THE FRIENDLY HILL TRIBES West of Mai Sai along the Shan States that border Thailand and Burma, beyond trim rice fields, loom the densely wooded mountains of Ampur, and here dwell several mountain hill
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← Back –   Chapter 24   – Next → THEO NEVER STOPPED DREAMING Theo always hankered to go back to Tahiti for a visit. He never stopped dreaming. Maybe that is what makes an artist, dreams. It certainly was what made Theo. He
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