My friend Dale maybe we are Friends Light
we’ve known one another since the seventies
when we were both in the American Peace Corps
in Israel I liked her I always liked her and another friend
from then a blind wonderful man named Danny
who lived for years in Alaska teaching children with
disabilities my friend Dale called yesterday and asked to meet
we live nearby maybe we meet once a year she has
a beautiful voice I said I don’t really know much
about your childhood much about your life. I’ll tell
you now said my friend Dale. My father came from Pittsburgh
and he wanted job security so he became a Druggist.
My mother was from a close family of 9 siblings. They were
religious but my father worked at the drug store on Saturdays.
He was always difficult. Got into many fights. I have one brother
married to a Japanese wife Japanese daughter living in Tokyo since the pandemic
we speak once a week he worries about me because I never married
never had children I worked for him in the IT business for 18 years
then moved to Israel in IT now I take Talmud classes a few times
a week am in touch with his daughters from his first wife one
teaches at Berkeley the other teaches meditation they’re wonderful
said Dale. Not their mother though. My friend Dale finished her
cappuccino. Next time we meet it’s your turn she said.
Well, I have dinner with your/my friend Dale whenever I'm in the States. I knew much but not all of what she told you. Perhaps you learn more from coffee than from dinner.
families are complicated. I take comfort knowing that much like mine other families although tangled manage to survive. your coffee time made for very interesting reading. you use your words so well. I wish you can construct a logical scheme with many of my complicated family construct and situations-xx