Passing

My friend and peer died yesterday. We haven't been in touch for years, decades even, and he was the one who broke off contact way back when over some political disagreement, but we, I'd like to think,  respected each other, each other's talents, plus the fact that we were age peers - he was older by a few months - hit me hard, and reminded me of my own mortality once again, and that, as they say, we're not long for this earth.  What can you do? I am sorry we never reconciled.  (Laugh if you have to when I say I was friends with a man I hadn't seen for decades!)

In the meantime, as I am looking at a photograph I took today  of my grandson running around in the rain in the backyard of the house, a photograph that is staring at me from the other screen, and I am thinking of how and if I can protect this precious being from the madness of the two women in this house, who, well.  'nuff said.