Boston Strangeness
48 hours in Boston for a quick anniversary trip. Stayed in Cambridge -- which is most certainly NOT "my" Cambridge from 35+ years ago.
My old $140 a month hellhole of an apartment at 885 Mass Ave at the Corner of Mass and Lee? Building is still there, but now massively spiffied up and the apartment is probably 10-15 times my old rent (no joke).
I *did* spy the old GAMES PEOPLE PLAY shop in a slightly different location. I tipped my hat to a ghostly Rob (the late lamented Uncle Dirty) and a very alive Madeleine (who has Made A Fine Woman/Wife/Mother/Author Of Herself since then).
Passed by Memorial Hall at Harvard and tipped the French hood with a fond curtsey to boot in honor/memory of Sir Patri, Goody, Viz, Marian, Gillian, and all the younglings that we used to be before time and pestilence took its toll on too many of us, in whole or in part.
And now I am back home, in the Here and Now. But it was nice to fleetingly buss Then on the cheek .
My old $140 a month hellhole of an apartment at 885 Mass Ave at the Corner of Mass and Lee? Building is still there, but now massively spiffied up and the apartment is probably 10-15 times my old rent (no joke).
I *did* spy the old GAMES PEOPLE PLAY shop in a slightly different location. I tipped my hat to a ghostly Rob (the late lamented Uncle Dirty) and a very alive Madeleine (who has Made A Fine Woman/Wife/Mother/Author Of Herself since then).
Passed by Memorial Hall at Harvard and tipped the French hood with a fond curtsey to boot in honor/memory of Sir Patri, Goody, Viz, Marian, Gillian, and all the younglings that we used to be before time and pestilence took its toll on too many of us, in whole or in part.
And now I am back home, in the Here and Now. But it was nice to fleetingly buss Then on the cheek .