Fast forward a dozen years, and I’m all grown up, living on my own, a thousand miles from my Illinois childhood. March came. Ice and snow. April came. Wind, cold, some snow, weak sun. May, even June, more of the same, mostly minus the snow. (Although, surely we remember having snow in May, right?)
Even June can be stingy with the nice weather. Of course, the bulbs come up, the trees leaf out, the lilacs bloom (though three weeks later than the ones in my Illinois yard) and eventually, spring does arrive. Right now, even though Easter has come and gone, spring is holding off.
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That would be mine, and I’ve grown used to grabbing my mask when I see someone pull in my driveway, empty egg cartons in hand. I watch astonished to see the nine-year-old (part of my upstairs family) run out to greet the mailman with his T-shirt pulled up over his mouth and nose. The children are scrupulous about masks.
But now the four of us, along with so many others, have been vaccinated. Our pie-making morning was a coming out party of sorts, albeit a cautious one. There we were, all over 70, a couple on the far side of 75, chattering away as women do, but it felt so fresh. We kept marveling at how
Got that? It’s only my own latest bump against change; most likely to many of you this is old stuff. But the changes are accelerating at a pace that’s hard to keep up with. Gas lights were replaced with electric lights. Big deal. It was still the same function, just a different delivery. Cars replaced horses. Stuff still got moved.
But computers and the web have pushed us to previously unimagined places, places we didn’t know we wanted to be. Those tiny “phones” we all carry in our back pockets can do way more than the systems that took man to the moon in 1969. People vacuum their houses with little robots, answer their own doorbell from thousands of miles away, turn on the lights, turn on the heat, turn on the car with a voice command.
In partnership with the Northeast Mobile Health Services (the Town’s ambulance service provider) Lincolnville is co-sponsoring a COVID-19 Vaccination Clinic (for those 60 years of age or older) on Wednesday, March 10, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the.