Last night was David Letterman’s last show.

A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust

  As a fifteen year old boy, my son could spend literally all day in front of that game console. It calls his name. Truth be told, there has been more than one conflict in our house in an effort to limit the amount of time he spends engaged with that machine.

A friend is down in Tampa cleaning out the aparment of an elderly lady. She is in her mid-90s and is in an assisted living facility.  He is her advisor and the named executor of her estate.  He said it is a rather depressing job to clean up decades of her stuff.  I asked him how she is doing.  Pretty well, he said, the only thing she cares about is whether her soup is hot.  

I've been very active most of my life and have suffered fractures, ligament issues, hyperextensions, bruises, sprains, etc. I've usually bounced back from these injuries in a relatively short time feeding my body with the right nutrients and careful excercise that have always brought me back to 100%.   This time it's quite different. It's reeeaallly slow and when I push my body a bit it tells me loud and clear "What the hell are you doing?!? Lie down and take a nap...NOW!"  

Did you ever notice in old black-and-white photographs how short the old people are? My mother was under 5 feet tall and my father just over 5 feet.  Thus, it was grounds for rejoicing when I continued to grow into my 20s to my Apogee of 5 feet 9 3/4 inches. Now, however,  approximately a half a century later I have receded to 5'7". It's not so much that I noticed, it's that my sons and grandson continue to point it out saying "I'm taller than you now".

I recently received an email from an art gallery which, for some reason, keeps me on its email list. The email announced the birth of a second child to one of the gallery. The email was replete with pictures of the happy family and newborn baby. I was reminded of a friend who told me that he got his wife to go to baseball games by talking about the players as real people -- families, etc. As his wife became interested in the players as real people, she started going to games.