Day 30

celebratory mo'ment

I gave a lot of thought to tonight’s post

I thought about all the particular photo requests that had come in

I thought about how I hadn’t gotten to them all

I thought about the various reasons for this … and thought about the differential value we place on the things that we do and, afterwards, thought a little about regret

(I also thought about why folks had requested CHiPs-themed shots when the boys didn’t even have mo’s…did you just want to see me feather my hair?)

I thought about how one friend’s creative challenge had grown a small community – and a bunch of mo’ney

I thought of friends – here, and departed

I thought of living each day fully

While simplifying my existence and the things I consume

I smoked a $60 cigar

I thought of the event from which that cigar was a stowaway, of the last time friends had gathered around old whisky, new fishing holes and old stories renewed

I thought of my granddad and his stories, thought of his legacy, thought of the past

I looked up at the moon through the winter branches of the arbutus growing through my deck

And thought of the future

Thank you all for contributing to that future
to better, longer lives
for men like my grandfather.

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