2024 Life Logs, Day 167: A Day for Ollie and Ardenna
Date: Saturday, June 15, 2024
Weather: Rain Overnight, Partly Sunny Day; Temp 75, Low 53 degrees F
Location: At Home on Lakeview Avenue, Falmouth, MA
This is Falmouth Arts Alive weekend and it began this morning at 10 am with an early Juneteenth celebration. Ollie Goldstone’s artwork was front and center. As a 5th grader at Morse Pond School, Ollie’s class read Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream Speech” at Falmouth’s Martin Luther King Breakfast. That experience was very meaningful for Ollie, so when Morse Pond students were asked to do a Juneteenth art poster this year, he took that task very seriously. There were posters from a few other students on display today, but Ollie was called up first and his poster was right in the middle.
He chose a Coretta Scott King quote for his poster, “Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won. You can earn it and win it in every generation.” Very timely for our political landscape in 2024. Congratulations to my very thoughtful, youngest grandson
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The day ended with the arrival of Ardenna in Quissett Harbor. After the Juneteenth celebration, Heather, Jed, Ollie, and I headed to Fairhaven for Ollie’s soccer team’s championship game.
They lost the game 0-2, their first loss of the season, but it was a good game and the boys seemed to take the loss in stride. We left the game with one of Ollie’s friends, Seton, and headed to Mattapoisett where Ardenna was waiting on a mooring to be motored across Buzzards Bay.
I dropped them all off, watched Ollie drive the dinghy away from the dock and out to the mooring, and then I headed home. I stopped to see how Sam and Jonah were doing. They were happily watching the Le Mans 24-hour car race while eating a late lunch of left over pizza. Yes, they are teenagers! I told Sam that Heather expected Ardenna to arrive in Quissett Harbor around 5:30 pm and he said he would drive out to pick them up. Actually, when he arrived, they were just coming to the dock to fill the water tanks and Sam was there just in time to catch their lines. What timing. But they were not ready to come home as they still had to get the boat out to the mooring. So, Sam came home to continue watching the race and I drove to Quissett at 6:30 pm to pick them up. I love Quissett Harbor and relish any opportunity to go there and sit on the dock for a few minutes and recall some of the wonderful memories of living aboard there for the two summers before Mark died. In my opinion, it is one of the most beautiful of New England’s harbors.
Just before writing this log, I checked my email for the first time today. There was a message from good friend Patsy Decker. She and her husband Eric are spending the night at the Centennial Hotel in Concord, NH, and are headed to Boothbay for a family gathering starting tomorrow. She had read my log from last night and saw that Jed’s mother, Marti, was also headed to Boothbay today. Over the years, our lives have crossed paths so many times in so many ways. Patsy, if you are reading this, I will write back to you tomorrow. Enjoy your time in Boothbay!
I also heard from another good friend tonight, Lynne Kirwin. Lynne arrived from New Zealand about two weeks ago and is visiting with friends and family on the West Coast. She was waiting in an airport for a flight from California to Portland, Oregon to visit with friends in the Pacific Northwest. We had one of our very long catch-up conversations. I will look forward to seeing her later this summer. But in the meantime, Lynne …. Keep enjoying your West Coast visiting.
