Spring Waning Bloodroot Moon
The Order of Woolly Mammoths, or OWM, the sacred sound that created the world, met tonight at Frank’s for our annual corned beef and cabbage feed. Bill Schmidt gave us an insiders perspective on the nuclear crisis, explaining the safeguards in place and said, with some emotion, that if called and if he could contribute, he would go. It gave me a personal connection to the brave, even heroic effort that engineers and other workers at the Fukushima facility have already offered and confirmed what I suspected. These are men and women who have a wartime level commitment to their jobs, knowing that if doing them costs their lives; it’s a sacrifice both necessary and worthwhile. They deserve our deepest admiration and respect as humans tested in a type of cauldron most of us will never, thankfully, see.
Tom, a new grandfather-to-be, asked for advice, stories, thoughts from current Woolly grandfathers. He has chosen to devote his meeting, our next one, to the topic. Gray heads discussing gray-headdom.
Stefan and I discussed a possible visit to Aerquipa when our cruise hits Peru. It would involve a plane flight from Lima of about an hour and a half. I want to make it work, seeing Lonnie and her folks at work, visiting someone I know. Some planning to be done.
These men, this crowd of silverbacks, men I knew when our hair had color are a central part of my life. It was good, as it always is.