Wow. July 2, 2023

Locator: 45887ARCH.

Flashback: from August 3, 2014.

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A Note for the Granddaughters

Before leaving southern California, our granddaughters each gave me a card thanking us for a wonderful vacation.

The older granddaughter's card included a sketch of a "book-tree." It has endless amount of symbolism. She and I, back in Boston, spent many hours up in her favorite "climbing" tree, sitting among the limbs, reading books. She used that memory to create the sketch.

Note the books:

• I-98: she must have been listening when I discussed my blog story about I-98
• Ten Blogs: somehow she knows that I have several blogs
• Fish: her memories of the two of us fishing in Texas and California
• Sailing Handbook: something she is studying to go on a global sailing trip with her dad
• The Beatles: our favorite albums
• Baken (sic) Oil

At the bottom of the tree is a chess board; we've all enjoyed learning to play chess. And, of course, the Apple laptop computer on top of the chess board.