Some things are tolerable and some things are intolerable. Where do we draw the line?

It had been two years since our last visit to Martha’s Vineyard and many things had changed. Places that we had frequented over our many annual visits had closed.And I thought about the last time we had been to those places.It is humbling that you really don’t know the last time you will be somewhere.

The Tournament starts this week and after a fan-free 2020 event, the crowds will be back in Flushing Meadow.  Happily, the final decision to make it a vaccinated event, since the stadium now has a roof, should make for a more relaxed environment.  

  It was time for a new Netflix show. “Manifest” had been recommended to us and so we started the binge run last weekend. If you haven’t seen the show, the basic premise is that a plane disappears for five years – and then suddenly reappears as if the passengers had been frozen in time. No time had passed for them, but their loved ones had aged and moved on without them.

One of my most vivid childhood memories is that of the kitchen table before school in the morning. Every morning there would be a glass of apple juice waiting for me-- which my mom put out a half hour before so it would be at room temperature by the time I came downstairs-- and a Chocks vitamin.    

While I like to attend concerts, the stadia, amphitheater, arena experience – in terms of accessing the facility and one’s seats – involves nothing easy. That said, the experience once inside borders on exhilaration, especially if you know and enjoy the music. One song tied together the concerts my daughter and I enjoyed last Wednesday and as this weekend started.

Driving home I swung into the drive-through at Starbucks to get my favorite summer drink.   This is the actual conversation:   Starbucks employee: Hi...welcome to Starbucks what can I get started for you?

When we were in high school most wanted to be “popular”.  Some tried hard, some just had “It” and some fell short. Popularity was a sought after, undefinable, elusive, state of being. Interestingly, many of those who were then popular and part of the “In Crowd” did not sustain it through life and over the years “Losers” morphed into well grounded, hard earned successes. Who’s to say that being labeled as losers early did not spur them on?