The street in the photo looking up towards the mountains is the present day view of the street that I grew up on. In my early years, until about when I was seven or eight, it was a dirt road. The road at the end of this street is San Fernando Road, the Old 99 Hwy. Railroad tracks are on the other...
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436838 (In Public Domain) Second Grandson– 12/01/20 …and he never understood all the words of advice, all the talk at the supper table, parents, older brothers and sisters, grandparents - he referred to them as ancient of days with his friends, not...
Last Visit to Richard & The Story I Was Not Able to Read to Him *** For our 55th Year high school reunion, coming up within a week now, the Reunion Committee solicited written submissions from all our classmates to include in an electronic Commemorative Book of Memory & Testament. To...
A Meditation Upon “The Book Smugglers – Partisans, Poets, and the Race to Save Jewish Treasures from the Nazis – The True Story of the Paper Brigade of Vilna” This posting is not so much a formal book review as it is a personal meditation on “The Book Smugglers”. This book spoke volumes and...
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/10425 Second Granddaughter – 04/21/14 …and the young girl loved her mother who she thought was very pretty and sometimes she just wanted to be with her and watch her cook, or read, or sew. And sometimes she would just watch and sometimes she would...
Often Nights Turn into "Armageddon Scenes". When Attacks with Missiles and Drones Begin, our Army Shoots them Down. Часто ночі перетворюються на «сцени Армагеддону». Коли починаються атаки ракетами і дронами, наша армія їх збиває. *** Very early on June 8, I sent a lengthy email to...
The Broken Love Stone - If Love is Missing or Fractured, It is then Like a Constellation Without Many of its Stars, and Those Stars Remaining Dimmed and Barely Visible. I have walked by these stones, actually more like ceramic eggs, many times over the years on my long walks, with the stones at...
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/547802 The Temple of Dendur Fifth Sister – 03/08/21 …art is sometimes big, old, and monumental, and, sometimes, something that you are able to touch, if you are careful, if you make it right. For art, here stone chiseled and shaped millennia ago –...