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Where Did the Time Go?
Yesterday, you may have noticed there was no post. It is rare that I don’t post my daily blog. Since I started the blog, I only missed one other—Valentine’s Day. I would say, “For obvious reasons,” but it would not … Continue reading →
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Tagged 71-year-old flight instructors, Alberto Santos-Dumont, discussions that went far beyond the topics of typical teenagers, getting us into trouble, hit the wrong switch, I thought of those times from long ago, introducing the boys to flying real airplanes, just missed a day, learning fly in rickety 25-year-old steel tube and fabric airplanes, my friend’s juvenile bedroom, posting my daily blog, red sneakers stuck in a closet talking to one another, sibling shenanigans, stretching parental nerves, talking about grownup things, talking all about our lifetimes, the Demoiselle, the look of horror on the faces of their parents, they were very naturally gifted writers, Until we meet again Papa..., Valentine’s Day, we discussed dinosaurs, we discussed Mars, we discussed places beyond our solar system, we discussed Saturn, we discussed space travel, we dreamed dreams, we learned things others could not, we learned things others did not, we learned things others were not interested in, We talked of aerodynamics and flying, We were children then, went back over five decades, Where Did the Time Go?, World War I aircraft, yes we were nerds, “For obvious reasons”
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