Different Slants

Comment by Don Larson

December 13, 2009 @ 6:44 pm

You’re like a modern day Humpty-Dumpy after all the things that happen to you.

Don

Comment by Marilyn Helmer

December 13, 2009 @ 7:42 pm

I’m so sorry to learn about your fall, and on my birthday, too, but it is a funny story as only you can tell it! I’m copying it for Marty to read.

Your perspective on the bi-cultural relationships is wonderful! A proud Lutheran! Aptly said! (remember I married into them but have since found my way back to the Brethren. Ha. )

Marilyn

Comment by Paul Eisenbacher

December 14, 2009 @ 1:39 pm

Bob
With all that has happened to you in getting out of your store, I wonder if you shouldn’t have invested in bubble wrap. I just read an article in time Magazine about the “decade from hell” 2000-2010. I know you don’t believe in hell but you might be living it. Your story about Sarah’s Bat Mitzvah is a personification of love, friendship, and a spiritual compassion that clearly shows that out of so little expected, so much has been given. There are many “good Samaritans” in this world and they seem to attract one another. You should know, you are one of them. Paul

Comment by robert m katzman

December 14, 2009 @ 6:29 pm

To Don,
I feel like a scrambled egg, and I bet some people will agree I think like one, too. Since the accident, I prefer over/easy, thank you.

To lovely Marilyn,
Marrying into Joy’s family gave me great insight into the Christian world, and I suspect, took some of the mystery of the Jews away for them. I hope.

To Paul,
Beautifully stated, kind and inspiring thoughts from you. Thank you.

I am reopening my store,soon, because I have to, ought to, and hope the world realizes it needs me as much as I seem to need it. Over three months in the wilderness, pushing sixty, is a long terrifying time.

I learned that I am not a hot commodity in virtually any job market. I am Rip van Winkel, without being asleep. My many stories are becoming a social history of another time and a different set of values.

I will continue to write and publish as long as I can, because the record I’m leaving needs to be preserved so people can see how some people, in a certain obscure strata of society lived, once upon a time.

To all three of you, Merry Christmas, and thank you so much for reading my stories and writing to me.

Bob

Comment by Don Larson

December 15, 2009 @ 11:18 am

Let me know when the store is open so I can mention it on my website.

Happy Hanukkah!

Don