The Writer's Life 2/18 - Six Degrees

An old college friend checked in with me via Linkedin yesterday. He’s retired from sales and living in North Carolina. He mentioned an incident I’d forgotten, and added a juicy element to it. In 1971 the University of the Pacific played our alma mater, Western Michigan U., in Kalamazoo. Geoff was a member of the school’s band, The Marching 100. If I recall correctly, his instrument was the French horn. Anyway, that day the band took the field at the prescribed time for the halftime show. For some reason Pacific lingered, perhaps getting a tongue lashing from its coaches. Worlds then collided as the two entities moved enmasse toward each other. One of the Pacific players took dead aim at Geoff and knocked him on his butt. The player was all conference DB and future NFL coach Pete Carroll. Six degrees of separation and all that jazz.



There was welcome relief from the bitter cold today. It was only a few degrees above freezing, but the sun was shining and the wind was absent. I put in three hours at the floating book shop. Unfortunately, only one person bought, a middle age Russian woman snapping up a paperback in her native tongue. Still, it was great to be away from the apartment. I got to visit with Dave and Barbara and Mikhail and the retired postal worker who's recovering from recent surgery to improve circulation in his left leg. Madeline donated two more books, one on yoga, the other on acting. Occupy Jack showed and admitted to being a little stir crazy, which is not a big leap for him. The best part of the session was my giving the Lady Eve the info about the Kindle version of my rock n roll epic, Rising Star, which she said she would download immediately. That made the entire stay worth it. The only negative was having to haul the crates back to the car. Three hours of standing in the cold is not kind to a 64-year-old body.

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