![]() Would Vincent be invited to the party? Would there be a party? His mom and dad’s annual 4th of July patio pool party was a week away and Sid’s birthday a week beyond that, so there was no urgency to solve this overnight. It was the deeper divide between Michel and Vincent I didn’t want for a legacy if in any way I could help it. That might not be the worst thing, I thought, with the complexity of it being the nine of us. Harder yet to accept, my kids had a rift going that meant we might never vacation all together as a family again. Home from Colorado tending my arid back yard and realizing our family summer vacation was over and summer itself, my Summer of 69, was barely ten days old and we had no more vacation plans. The epidemiologists worried that the USA would eventually see the delta variant later in the summer and it would spread across the South where restrictions were few, precautions feeble and people would spend time mixing indoors with air conditioning when the weather was hot. No one yet knew if the delta variant was more virulent or less than alpha but there were more cases of infection among vaccinated people although the unvaccinated made up the vast majority of cases, serious sicknesses and deaths. The delta variant of covid-19 was becoming the most prevalent strain of the virus across South Africa and the UK, causing a spike in cases, hospitalizations and deaths. We had all just spent more than a year either saving our lives or wasting our time. In truth everyone I made contact with was in the same situation, starting fresh with oversized expectations of what it takes to be normal in a society of conflicting radical paradigms. Taking that attitude on the road seemed a curious way to reestablish contact with an alien world but in a humble way it made sense. ZOZO and the pandemic gave new credence to being a homebody. The more you see the more you know the more you see. The idea being to continually refresh and rededicate to relaxing, cleansing and freedom. When I retired I stopped going to work, stopped working and went on permanent vacation - relax the body, cleanse the soul, free the mind full time. Vacations are meant to relax the body, cleanse the soul and free the mind so when one returns to work, whatever work is, one is refreshed and rededicated. ![]() The few times I ever felt that way were when I returned to work with jet lag. There is a common refrain about needing a vacation to recover from a vacation.
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