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Polska 2021 Return

I woke up to a text from K that they’d made it through security without any issues.

I checked the flight tracking app I’d installed a month ago just for this trip.

They were well on their way.

And then, a rush to get them…

On the way, a wreck — forty minutes of sitting, crawling forward, sitting. Will I make it? Just how long will I be sitting here? What if I’m here an hour? Two?

Then the airport — lines for everything. The line for the taxis must have been 50 meters long — no exaggeration. It stretched half of the airport at least. And the line for luggage issues — at least half as long as the taxi line. People upon people everywhere. (Much to my relief, almost everyone in masks. I don’t know if it was required. I saw about 5% without.) Finally, I found them, we got the luggage, we made it home.

Four in the house again. Seven with the pets (dog, cat, frog). All is back to normal. More or less.

Last Day of Polska 2021

Spykowice and Cribbage

Welcoming the New Sixth Graders

Who knows what this year holds — we all begin the year with a sense of anticipation and dread.

One Last Visit

The last time this visit that E and his cousins get a chance to go to Wypasiona Dolina, the line park just outside Babcia’s village.

Krakow

Cousins

K went to her aunt’s and uncle’s house to pick up something E had left there when they visited last week.

It turned out that all the cousins were there for a visit along with their kids.

Everyone together for the first time since our wedding, K and I figured.

A Day with Old Friends

The Solo

Looking through old images for pictures of Dad, I found this video and promptly uploaded it for posterity. This was Thanksgiving 2005, our last Thanksgiving in Nashville, where we used to go every two years to spend the holiday with Mom’s brother Nelson and his family.

I can’t remember why Dad was pantomiming singing, but it was like in connection to the years-long running joke about his lack of singing ability. He used to say that most people like it when he sings a tenor solo: “Ten or more miles away, and so low you can’t hear it” he’d add with a sly smile.

Autograph

When a world-class athlete who's won the World Cup twice, the world championship twice, and has three Olympic gold medals and a bronze -- when this guy stops by your grandma's house, you get him to sign anything you can find.

And why might this guy drop by your grandma's house? Because your grandma is his aunt,

making you his second cousin. I think. Some kind of cousin.