Granddaughter Grace turned two today, a day that I am very pleased to have witnessed. Together with Linda and her parents, we traipsed around the very pretty Oakland Zoo, with some dozens of other toddler-to-elementary school children, their parents and teachers.

Grace has been the brightest (small) being in what have been the most trying years of my life. Grace is cheer, Grace is light, Grace is hope, and beside that she’s a sweet little girl. She smiled when she spotted her grandparents at the zoo’s entrance, and, again, later in the day, when she reached out to me, in complete confidence, as she tried to negotiate a particularly high curb, a circumstance that I have come to fully understand. Yes, we’re ga-ga about the granddaughter…

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