Cooking hamburgers at Paul's Place on Los Alamitos
Boulevard in Los Alamitos, Calif.
It seems that my parents, on their visit to Seal Beach, Calif., and I have been spending a great deal of time lately just feeding our faces. But that’s not true. When we’re discussing family matters and important issues there is little opportunity for taking photos, so most people only see is us feeding our faces.
But isn’t that true of so many other situations. A few photos, a thirty-second video of an event, a ten-second sound bite, five column inches of text: all are often the medium by which we learn of an important event. Only, often we don’t recognize it as important event. We absorb it only as facts and figures of something happening but emotionally we are not deeply moved. We don’t get the whole picture.
If it’s not of the magnitude of “9/11” or the “Haiti Quake” most of us are not really interested about the snippets of life that flicker before our eyes. If they don’t affect me directly, why should I care?
Note to self: WAKE UP!!! Live the life that I’ve been fortune enough to have been given. Every second counts. Every life counts. Every breath counts.
Paul's Place: all tables and chairs are outside.
Only the cooks and cashier have a place under the roof.
Everything is cooked to order.
Mildred and Bill chose the "California" burgers.
Dining in the sunlight.
End of day discussion with Jacky and Venerable H.D.
in coffee shop near University of the West campus in Rosemead.
http://picasaweb.google.com/wm.harting/VintageGlobeNews#5435571459684240802
Jim Karaian, Will, Marcella Morgese in the Boston Globe newsroom (approx. 1990).
Thanks for the link. Couple of other faces are recognizable in there, too. Those burgers look excellent!
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