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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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 They deserve our deepest admiration and respect as humans tested in a type of cauldron most of us will never, thankfully, see.<\/p>\n
Tom, a new grandfather-to-be, asked for advice, stories, thoughts from current Woolly grandfathers.\u00a0 He has chosen to devote his meeting, our next one, to the topic.\u00a0 Gray heads discussing gray-headdom.<\/p>\n
Stefan and I discussed a possible visit to Aerquipa<\/a> when our cruise hits Peru.\u00a0 It would involve a plane flight from Lima of about an hour and a half.\u00a0 I want to make it work, seeing Lonnie and her folks at work, visiting someone I know.\u00a0 Some planning to be done.<\/p>\n These men, this crowd of silverbacks, men I knew when our hair had color are a central part of my life.\u00a0 It was good, as it always is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Spring\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 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.\u00a0 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 … Continue reading The OWM<\/span>