Awesome day in Central Park. I’ll have to start taking some pics of the people that run, or bike by Dean’s Bench every day. It’s quite a group. People have really settled into a routine in this pandemic. There is the mid-eighties couple that run by every day. They look alike. Their arms flap in the same rotation. It’s great. There is Red Sox Jimmy King, who is a legendary bar manager on the West Side. When he was at Caprice Cafe, I can’t tell you how many times I saw De Niro, Danny Aiello, and Paulie Herman holding court. Jimmy has to be close to seventy, and has an adorable two year old boy. He runs by me every day, and yells,” I gotta make it to the kids high school graduation.” There are all sorts of contraptions people ride by on. I don’t even know what you would call them. Today I had Parker, Eddie, and Penny the Corgi with me. What a trio! If I let them off leash, it wouldn’t be a good day for the squirrels. Hard to catch them, but if they do, it’s over in a snap. Neck, that is.
Anyone check out the party people in the Ozarks over the weekend? Could you get any closer? If I lived in St. Louis, I wouldn’t want to be near any one of them. Outside is supposed to be better, so I’m not as concerned about the beaches, as long as there is some distancing. It’s the bars that worry me. Drunk people singing, slobbering over each other,etc. I get it. I like it too, but not in the middle of a pandemic.
I don’t know if anyone is watching the History Channel’s Grant? Really good. Seems accurate. Grant reminds me of what we should do during this trial in our lives. After The Mexican War, he was essentially a failure. He went through a series of jobs, and was a clerk in his Father’s store in Galena, Illinois, when The Civil War broke out. It was his actions at Shiloh that remind me of today. He was known for never losing his cool in battle. Able to think clear-headed, about what needed to be done next. After being pulverized by P.G.T. Beauregard, once Sidney Johnston went down, he organized a movable, working defense, that held the rebels at bay. At the end of the first day, Sherman said to Grant,”Well Grant, we’ve had the devils own day, haven’t we?” Grant replied:” Yes, lick em tomorrow though.” That’s the attitude we should have now. A disciplined organized defense, with the idea that we will lick it later. A great series, but kind of annoyed me that there was no mention that Sidney Albert Johnston was wildly considered the top Confederate General in the war at that time, and it was a huge blow when he went down. Lee was big then, but his genius came later.