The big waves of a week ago have transformed into gradually receding ripples…
🔸 I’ll be following up soon with some friends who would like a chance to talk more via a Zoom chat.
🔸 I’m collecting information about causes and/or businesses that people can support in the interest of contributing to real, lasting change.
🔸 I had a nice phone chat with my Dad and asked him questions to fill in the gaps of my knowledge or memory.
Turns out he wasn’t poised to work for NASA; he would have still been an employee of Lockheed but working at the Space Center. The home he and my mom were interested in leasing was in what was originally a Quaker community called Friendswood; the wife of the couple was all set to go, but the husband felt they should run it by the neighbors. End of story.
I also learned that in the brief period he worked for Control Data Corporation (CDC), Dad was almost transferred to Minneapolis. And at one point he was offered the chance to interview for a job at Northwestern University in Chicago.
How different my life would have looked if even a portion of my growing up years had been spent in Texas, Minnesota, or Illinois!
I can’t even imagine…