Random thoughts and questions

Find here a few thoughts after having to miss the reunion:

• I've been amazed through these past several months at the amount of effort and energy invested in the effort by Diane and Judy and the others. Thanks, friends.
• We Lorenzo-ites grew up in the best of times in the best of places in the world.
• Do you ever "Google" the names of old Lorenzo friends, hoping to find someone you haven't seen in 40 years?
• Do you grin when you see an old classmate's name come up when your cell phone's ringing?
• Have you noticed that the older we get, the more we consider "my" classmates to be several years younger and several years older than just my bunch?
• The hard work of a few folks made it possible for all reunion attendees to have a good time at the reunion. Affirm them and thank them. It's not a high-paying job.
• The older we get, the more we enter chapters of life I choose to call, "new normal."
• Does anyone remember a man in Lorenzo whose nickname was "Dump"? I do.
• Does anyone remember a terrible wreck near the cemetery in the 50's in which a few of our high school students were hurt badly?
• Think for a minute: Can you remember what the White's Auto store smelled like? What was the owner's name?
• Remember Mike Lopez? He could pop his gum like nobody I've ever known. I wonder where he is now.
• Now that we're old and gray (some gray-er than others), it would be interesting to know how many of us use an alarm clock to wake us up each morning. I don't. I wake up at 6:00 every day without an alarm.
• Does anyone remember a funeral we had in the school auditorium in the late 50's? What was the school administrator's name?
• Who had the loudest motorcycle in town in the early 60's? This friend took the guts out of the muffler on his Cushman Eagle. What is his name?