What did we know? Not nearly as much as we imagined. Life was ahead of us, newly married, we settled into an apartment in a newer building at 3117 Virginia Ave. S,, St. Louis Park, MN. Joanne was close to her job as a counselor at St. Louis Park High School and I commuted, across town, to Luther Seminary, St. Paul. It was a three story building with four units on each of the top two floors and three at the 'garden' level.
We first lived on the 2nd level but, at the landlord's request moved up a level for the second of our four years there. The man who live above us ignited a can of shoe polish, dropped it when he burned his fingers and the can rolled over the light carpet, spilling liquid shoe polish. He's the same man who tried to open a keg of been in the hallway with a screwdriver...neither incident ended well. After he was evicted the landlord thought we might be better tenants on the new carpet.
Tonight I was guest at a lovely dinner with Kevin and Alyssa who took me to "A Wok In The Park", a Thai restaurant about four blocks from our Virginia Ave. apartment. After dinner I drove by the building which brought back many memories. It's where we were living when Lisa was born and I graduated from the seminary. It was few block from our friend and Lisa's Godmother, Gerry Thompson, who was on call to take Joanne to the hospital should I be gone when Joanne went into labor. It was there we hosted dinner after Lisa's baptism at Westwood Lutheran Church., after she was baptized by her Grandfather, Rev. Oscar C. Hanson.
This is much of what Joanne and I would have discussed after an evening like I just finished. We'd have discussed the fine dinner with Alyssa and Kevin. Then we would have reminisced about life at 3117 Virginia. So, in her absence I tell you...that presence of absence you know.
Takk for alt,
Al
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