1960s

Hello friends. Sorry for the hugely long silence here on my blog. We took a 6,600 mile coast-to-coast road trip in September, and I’m still unpacking. Not literally, as in unpacking my clothes. But still unpacking the impressions of traveling through 20 states and spending time with family, grieving, rejoicing, sweating, feasting, crying, and rubbing sore behinds from all the time sitting in the car. Anyway, I want to share a couple of things we did on our trip that were, for me,  weirdly dissimilar strolls down memory lane. These influences from the past formed “bookends” around a period of…