Michael, that Gentlest of Readers responded to my plea for inspiration thusly: Tell me a story about anniversaries, please.<\/I>\n
Gentle Readers will be aware that I am attached to annual<\/a> remembrances<\/a> and<\/a> observances<\/a>. Today, for instance, is Flag Day, and am letting my freak flag fly. Ahem. No, that’s not right. I am proudly flying my American flag, off the white porch of our small-town house. Really, I am.\n Michael was, however, asking about more personal anniversaries, I think. My own preference for observing anniversaries, whether natal, nuptial or national, is to take stock of the year that has past since the last time. Was it a good year? Did the gains balance out the losses? Am I a better man than I was last year? Can the losses be regained, at least in memory? Or can they be put behind me? Can the gains be exploited, celebrated, repeated?\n If this sounds a bit somber, well, in fact I tend to take my anniversaries a bit somber. Time passes. Listen! Time passes. I’ve been out of college fifteen years. I have friends and relatives who will no longer call on my birthday, and I will have more. My Perfect Non-Reader is no longer a baby.\n And, of course, time passes. One old buddy recently noted in his blog that it had been half his life, now, since he met the woman who is now his wife; it’s more than half my life that I’ve known my Best Reader. My Perfect Non-Reader can read. I have new friends (and Gentle Readers). I accumulate good memories. And so far, each new anniversary, birthday, holiday has found me alive. And that’s a good thing.\n chazak, chazak, v’nitchazek<\/I>, Michael, that Gentlest of Readers responded to my plea for inspiration thusly: Tell me a story about anniversaries, please. Gentle Readers will be aware that I am attached to annual remembrances and observances. Today, for instance, is Flag Day, and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[201],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-navel-gazing"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17766,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10229\/revisions\/17766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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