Hello Fellow Travelers!
Amid all the D & D(Death & Destruction, I do overuse acronyms), there are little bright spots, soul restoring bits of real Americans, doing uniquely American things. You only have to look and see examples of invention and innovation everywhere! I hope everyone saw some or all of the launch. Today the Dragon docked! It was great! The NASA scientists were ecstatic! It was international, joyous, inspirational and global. Sending a rocket into space is uniquely unifying! Age, mobility, even nationality - all are irrelevant. There is only the one goal, a single objective, and we all can share it. A global success! A triumph of science!
More examples of American innovation? I need look no further than my in-laws who arranged a very creative and hilarious multi-state Zoom party for my graduating nephew. If you've not been to a Zoom meeting before, it's on your computer and you sort of look like the opening credits of The Brady Bunch (everybody is in view and can socialize). It was so great! Family chatting from far-flung locations in real time. Costumes,signs, an amazing slide show, errant pets... You know what was not present? Lingering. Miserably bored offspring. Dirty dishes. When you said "Goodbye" you meant it. Everybody hung up and ended it! Will it replace family get-togethers? Probably not. But for a pandemic graduation, it totally worked! Kudos to D. & J. for a first rate experience!
Amid all the D & D(Death & Destruction, I do overuse acronyms), there are little bright spots, soul restoring bits of real Americans, doing uniquely American things. You only have to look and see examples of invention and innovation everywhere! I hope everyone saw some or all of the launch. Today the Dragon docked! It was great! The NASA scientists were ecstatic! It was international, joyous, inspirational and global. Sending a rocket into space is uniquely unifying! Age, mobility, even nationality - all are irrelevant. There is only the one goal, a single objective, and we all can share it. A global success! A triumph of science!
More examples of American innovation? I need look no further than my in-laws who arranged a very creative and hilarious multi-state Zoom party for my graduating nephew. If you've not been to a Zoom meeting before, it's on your computer and you sort of look like the opening credits of The Brady Bunch (everybody is in view and can socialize). It was so great! Family chatting from far-flung locations in real time. Costumes,signs, an amazing slide show, errant pets... You know what was not present? Lingering. Miserably bored offspring. Dirty dishes. When you said "Goodbye" you meant it. Everybody hung up and ended it! Will it replace family get-togethers? Probably not. But for a pandemic graduation, it totally worked! Kudos to D. & J. for a first rate experience!
John Krazinski streamed a little show from his basement with his wife (Emily Blunt) and his two little girls called "Some Good News" or "SGN" where he reported cheerful, heartfelt stories with ridiculously happy endings. Brad Pitt is the weatherman. I look for good news now, anywhere I can find it because I think good news is going to be harder to find in the immediate future. One of the many lessons I have learned the hard way is the point of view (wisdom?) of playing the "long game". We will go to ball games, shows and campsites on the beach again . We will get through this. It's just going to be longer and a lot more difficult...
Janice!!! AM SO GLAD TO FIND YOU!! I love reading your blog!!
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