The span from a one room country school house to today sometimes boggles my mind. Today’s plan was to go to lunch with a 13 and a 10 year old. It was a bit surprising that they hadn’t settled on a restaurant before I joined them but they had had a mild disagreement. 13 asked me where I’d suggest. “Fat Lorenzo’s” was my suggestion. 10 said, “I don’t eat pizza” which is what we’d usually ordered there. Now ‘dairy free’ pizza wasn’t an option for 10. 13 responded by retrieving a smart phone. In a moment 13 had the menu of Fat’s and suggested to 10, “how about a meatball sandwich?” 10 agreed and so it was off to Fat’s for a delightful lunch.
When I was 13 I didn’t have a smart phone. The comic book character, Dick Tracy, had a wrist phone but no one else did. Ah yes, a far journey from the one room school and life in the 40s!
Takk for alt,
Al
(George) "Washington served two terms and then stepped down in 1797, despite many calls for him to continue in office. He believed that it was crucial to set the precedent for a peaceful transition, and he longed for a quiet retirement at Mount Vernon, his Virginia plantation. He composed his 32-page farewell address with the help of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. In his speech, he urged the nation to think of itself as a unified body. He said that partisanship “serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another, foments occasionally riot and insurrection. It opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which find a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passion.” Writer's Almanac Al says "Well said George."
College graduation day with my favorite faculty member.
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