Hi knarf, I hope you are well. Thank you for posting this.
I like the slug line about being from a generation of risk-takers,problem solvers, and inventors. I’ve often thought that as a society we would be well served to return to our childlike qualities of curiosity and forgiveness. Somehow when we attain 14-15 we forfeit our risk taking, creative, team approach (among many others).
I’ll never forget playing baseball with my friends while barefoot. I’d never heard of Shoeless Joe. But when Billy stepped on my toes (he had shoes on) and I bit his nose drawing blood, everything was settled. He stayed one of my best friends.
Gwjack
Yes, as well as an older man can be as I relive the days and memories .... and try to figure out how to stop this momentum in our land that is robbing us of a viable populace
Vladimir Semienko (I actually remember this) showed up in 5th grade, a refugee (or something) from (we were told) French Morocco, who, later in Jr High School, won the science fair for building and displaying a "binary translator", which was a box with three or four lights on it that somehow he would push buttons and different 1's and 2's would be displayed and we all ooed and aahed while he spoke and (I guess) explained what he was doing (and probably why) and had NO idea what he was talking about
I wonder where Vladimir is today.