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In the Future…
In the future, no one has a watch. No one has a cell phone, at least not one that gets a signal. There are no motorized vehicles or shopping malls or internet or long, hot showers or tub baths. In the future there are very few people…
It was never on my bucket list to endure and survive a pandemic, but here we are, all of us on planet Earth marking time, making choices that once required only a fleeting thought, staying busy and hoping that one day the world will go back to the way it was, or at least to a reasonable facsimile of how is used to be, back at the end of December, 2019 when few of us paid any attention to COVID-19 when there was a small outbreak in Wuhan, China.
My first Rotary Club had planned an excursion to downtown Los Angeles for the fourth Saturday of the year, January 25th and I was excited to be included. I had transferred to the Santa Barbara Rotary in 2013 but remained in touch with the Rotarians in Santa Clarita. We were to meet at one of the three Metrolink stations and make the 70 minute trip down to Union Station. From there we would walk less than a half mile into Chinatown, where we had reservations at a popular restaurant. We would be able to see the Golden Dragon parade for Chinese New Year out the windows of our tables on the second floor, and after we finished eating we would join the crowds on the street below.
