It is a mini season of anniversary and memory. A major historical event, a personal re-connection, a television show.  Remembrance daring consideration of what we were and what we are now.

The 1969 moon landing still resonates. It seemed to draw a hopeful line under two years of trauma—Vietnam, Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy.  For this scrawler, they were also the years when the boy was emerging from childhood.  The memories are more complete, more rounded, although stunningly inadequate.