RE: Sometimes the Most Profound Lesson Is to Embrace the Grace To Keep Moving, and the Grace to Rest (Roland Kovaĉ, Brahms)

Germany's history and our country's own are deeply interlinked ... in Golden Gate Park here I found a stone that Germany had given San Francisco in 2018 as a promise never to do again what it had done in the world wars ... turns out German architects worked in making many of the city's greatest landmarks, and there is good German food and culture here because ... well, it's actually foundational to the city in its United States-era life, and that is actually true of the country as well.

About meeting him ... I refer often in this series of stories to "my grand old soldier" ... again, the problem was that he is near-peer to my father also. He and I walked in the parks for almost 20 years ... in a way, these stories are an extension of all that I learned in that deep friendship that, accounting for age, could not be more than an affair of the heart. I have had a younger walking partner since (read, still 64 now), but since Covid have chosen to remain alone ... I take my journals and talk with the Lord and snap my photos, and then come through Hive once a week and share some of what I have learned from the music of the week as well, in the spirit of the love I have known from here and above ... an echo, if you will ... for now, I am content.