Good morning. 🦆🪿🦢
15 June 2026
Rain on the roof this morning, steady enough that the forecast might as well just say don’t bother with outside today. So I’ll stay in and work indoors. Maybe I’ll finally clean the family‑room floor — the job that requires moving half the furniture and pretending I’m still twenty. I noticed on Saturday, during my exercise session, that the view from ground level reveals a whole ecosystem under there. Maybe we need a household staff. Or maybe I just need a nap. Rainy days are built for naps, and I’m already feeling the pull. No doubt I’ll manage both before the day is over.
When I first started driving, I had a 1954 Chevy station wagon. I’d cruise around town — not that the town was big enough to require cruising — but that’s what we did. There was a little mom‑and‑pop store near a streetlight, and for reasons lost to time, that was the local hangout. Teenagers gathered there like something might happen if we stared at the pavement long enough.
Me and my sidekick would roll by in the ’54, signaling our coolness with a snappy peace sign. Peace, man. Groovy. Out of sight. We had our own lingo and a Jets‑vs‑Sharks attitude, though in truth we weren’t about anything except mild mischief and trying to impress girls. As if a 1954 Chevy wagon was all it took for them to chase us down. They never did.
That era ended abruptly when a woman, late getting her son to a birthday party, tried to pass me while I was making a left turn. Totaled the car. I can still hear her kid crying in the back seat: “This always happens when you’re taking me to a party.” A perfect little soundtrack to the end of my first car and the end of that particular brand of teenage cool.
“The best thing one can do when it’s raining is to let it rain.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Youth is wasted on the young.” — George Bernard Shaw
“Experience is simply the name we
give our mistakes.” — Oscar Wilde
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