Here we are again.

If there were ever a time to go back to something, to revisit something, it is now when so many planets in the heavens are beckoning, a stroll toward what was, what occurred in the past, what was but what is no longer.

And I can think of no other place that is more perfect a milieu than this familiar blog.  This friend that sustained me through so many hard times, so many weary, soul-killing periods with work, with health, with death, with moving (or as it turned out, Not moving).  Among other places,  I've talked about it here.  And it seems even in this time of more complicated and non-free alternatives This is The perfect place to begin.  Again.

I realized why I liked writing here, why I kept it going for so very long...it's because it was about me.  (Wow, how's that for a self-centered revelation?).

Other prose has been deployed in emails, or in private journals, or increasingly in the last few years, text.  The latter format has been particularly unsatisfying in it's brevity and lack of nuance.  But I've used it purposefully, to distance.  Here, on this page, virtual as it may be, there has been a distinct lack of objectivity coupled with a sense of an audience, my future self.  Here, I speak more candidly and at greater length than any other save the confidential logs and the red diaries, which are off-line.  Here is a record I have increasingly turned back to, to read, to amuse, for comfort.  And voila, here I am again.

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So, in the spirit of update, I'll bring us up to speed:  We are and have been in a time of pandemic and lockdown.  We've been here, frozen in place since mid-March, though all the players and conditions were in place in January.   Many have died including Aunt Mavis and most recently Auntie Jeannie.  There is sadness and confusion and despair mixed with thankfulness and despite all odds some misplaced hope.  None of us expect a return to any sort of normalcy until next year.

I am still retired, but weight and asthma have returned.  I am working to resolve the last two.

It's obvious, I and the world have much to learn.

Until the next time,
-Best

And it's so nice to be back.

Caltrans...ancient memories from a dynasty

Christine, the beautiful with her princess daughter, Michelle the lovely at a Caltrans publicity event at the Golden Gate Bridge.