Memories, Nostalgia, Canciones, Family

    My wife and son have been away about four days, but it feels like five or six! Yeah, get ready for empty nester time! Do we need grandchildren to stay together as a couple? Perhaps it requires a lot more than that... I know I got some work to do. I will keep at it.

    Tonight it is dark very early, and I am with the mostly empty house, looking for my daughter at her friend's. We got together, and we will go out to Chinese food. Maybe I have not been to that restaurant before? We shall see.

    It made me think of when I was 14 I would go out during the week, usually with my mom, and we could eat Chinese food at Peach Garden, or maybe Lung Cheung, or House of Hunan... Not far from downtown, close to where she was living.

    Some sort of lonely times, before she met her second husband. My dad was single longer, too. Man, divorce was hard. I so do not like it. A bit like death, in my opinion. But, my step-parents made things much better. It became great, really. No more complaints from me. I got lucky, and so did they.

    God is good.

    Tonight I saw Christmas lights through my kitchen window, so a song in Spanish came to my brain, and then lungs and heart. 

    Veo luces! Navidenhas! Por las ventanas, de mi casa!

    I see luces, de Navidad, through the windows, de mi casa.

    'Tis the season, to be nostalgic and celebrate, yes?

    Okay, if you insist.

    Veteran's Day, in eight more days.

    Enjoy.