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| FBR With her Abuela Created Doggie Mask |
When you’re growing up some things in life seem carved in granite and
will never change. For example, I don’t believe there is a single grocery store
in my hometown from my youth that is currently operating. I know that seems
trivial but it’s an indicator of how much life does change. How many restaurants
are still around from that time; does anyone remember Howard Johnson’s? The environment
you grow up with becomes a touchstone with which you compare and experience the
inevitable changes. I posted pictures yesterday of the aunts and uncles I
revered as a youngster and thought of the change they experienced. They all
lived through the Great Depression, World War 2, and the 60’s. My grandparents
saw the instruction of the automobile, telephone, and air flight, not to
mention two world wars.
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| Some the Other Masks She has Created |
I think we’re now living through a time that will be remembered for the bone
deep changes it will inflict upon us. The world that will emerge from the pandemic
will be fundamentally changed and that’s not necessarily a bad thing. I do, at
times, feel this pandemic was specifically aimed at me since movie theaters and
bars were early victims, but I digress. That being said, I haven’t lost my
optimism about our ability to learn and prosper despite the challenges. While
autocratic governments are better able to coerce their people into beating the virus
we’ll eventually overcome this. If nothing else the pandemic has demonstrated
Trump’s abject absence of a scintilla of leadership ability; so, there’s that.
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| The Giraffe Mask |
I want to take this opportunity to recognize my Favorite Panamanian for
her efforts during the pandemic. She was and still is terrified of the virus.
She’s only now starting to leave the house and no longer requires that I divest
my work clothes in the garage each day. She turned her not inconsiderable
energy towards helping others. This doesn’t surprise anyone who knows her. She
started out be creating some face masks for her and I. She quickly expanded
that to our children and their friends. Over the past few months I’ve come up
to our bedroom to find her burning the midnight oil continuing the work on the dozens
of masks she’s created.
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| She's Also Nursed Her Vast Garden Complex Diligently |
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| Spotted a Large Hawk in Back Yard Hopefully He'll Dine on Some Pesky Rabbits |
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| Latest in Besson Watch Sneakily One of my Favorite Movies of all Time |
RECURRING
CHARACTERS
BR3
– granddaughter #3, BRS - Blog Reader the Sequel - second
granddaughter; FBR - First Blog Reader
- first granddaughter, ABFA – Amazing
Best Family Athlete = my daughter in law; Wingman – my son in law; Keene
Friends 1 & 2 – friends since high school from my home town of Keene,
NH; Soxfather - my brother in law; Great Aunt - my elder sister; Cantankerous Friend – friend since
grade school who likes to argue about everything, poses as radical leftist to
attract women; Pittsburgh College
Roommate – high school friend, also a “Minor Celebrity” in Pittsburgh; Deckzilla – our backyard deck which
grew to monstrous dimensions once my wife got involved in planning; Maine and Virginia Musqueteras – two
close friends of my wife – her US sisters, my wife is the 3rd musquetera
(musketeer); Riggins - also known as
the Grandpuppy, son's dog; PanaGals
– female relatives/friends of my wife from Panama; Panamanian/Latin Mafia – inevitable group of Latino friends my wife
accumulates wherever we have lived & their spouses; Neighborhood Mafioso - wife's close friend and Panamanian mafia
member, Favorite Panamanian - the
wife (of course); First Friday –
celebrations to mark the First Friday of the Week; Curbside Girls – close friends of my daughter acquired during her
single days in Brooklyn
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