For the family. For the kids. For the grandkids. For the beauty. For the technology. For the opportunities. For the fun.
For Amazon and instant gratification. For Uber and a taxi with leg room. For Canon for better cameras. For Apple’s amazing iPhone. For Microsoft whose Windows still work. For GPS so I can get there without help.
For California and New York.
For biotech and big pharma and medicines that cure.
For tenants who pay their rent. For the repair man who resurrected our fallen shades yesterday.
For wives who help us improve.
The world is truly a wonderful place.
This is my 48th year in the U.S.
Those 48 years have brought me deep happiness, enduring love, loyal friends, superb times and kids, grandkids and a loving, nice wife. She put my eye drops in this morning.
Some time tomorrow, they’ll play Arlo Guthrie’s Alice’s Restaurant on the radio and and I’ll tear up.
He recorded it the year I came to America. Vietnam was in full swing. The airline industry was regulated and entry by new airlines was forbidden. Telecommunications was a monopoly of AT&T. Kodak was king, with Kodachrome and Tri-X.
We had no cell phones, no optical fiber, no Internet, no laptops, no DNA. no GPS, no Amazon, no DirecTV, no Netflix, no HBO, no Tennis Channel and no overpriced organic foods.
Imagine what the next 48 years will bring our kids and our grandkids.
Have a great Thanksgiving.
Tasteless, but funny
Not funny.
Harry Newton. You can hear an updated version of Alice’s Restaurant played by an updated (larger) Arlo here.
I’m taking Eleanor, aged two, for a walk today. Maybe I’ll finally get a real kiss, not just a blown one. Grandfathers count their wealth by grandchildren kisses.
What do you even know about America, Harry? You are not a native, you are a refugee. You weren’t born here so you really have no right to even observe Thanksgiving. I was born and raised here, my father and grandfather fought in WW I and WW II, my uncles spilled blood at D-Day and the Battle of Iwa Jima. (Google them. I don’t think you know much about U.S. history.) I have a right to give thanks for living in the greatest country in the goddam world. You have no right to give thanks for anything, foreigner. If Trump is elected he will likely send you back to Melbourne.
The other thing that we didn’t have until 48 years ago when it suddenly showed up on our shores talking kind of funny with goofy liners like “getting slapped in the belly with a fish”, a certain Harry Newton. And the world has never been the same. Did Australia lose out, did the USA gain? Yep.
This was secretly posted at 5:18pm Calif. time after my 3o minute run at nearby Green String Farm .