Today's warm welcome goes out to Gozde and her gather Erkan form Ankara, Turkey

No, I am not on the road to Turkey,  although the distance to there (5418 miles) is less than the 5880 miles from DC to the Arctic Ocean in Alaska during my first trip there.    But if could drive there, I would.  I still have fond memories from my one trip there in 1989, and would go back in a flash.   I met Gozde and Erkan during my evening walk to the waterfront with Annie, and I relived just about every highlight of my trip with them.  They were impressed with my pronunciation of the only words I remember from my study of Turkish before my trip, çok güzel.  For those of you who do not know Turkish, that means "very nice."  Gozde just arrivied in the states to start a career in journalism, and we wish her the best of success.

 

From: Ed Mulrenin <edmulrenin@gmail.com>
Date: Wednesday, June 28, 2023 at 8:25 PM
To: Self Home <edmulrenin@gmail.com>
Subject: Welocome

Gozde and erkan

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Today's warm welcome goes out to Maya A*****in

Today's warm welcome goes out to Maya A*****in from Jordan. One of the benefits of having a dog is that you meet new interesting people every day. But every so often one of those people shares a view of the world as you do and comes at that view from the same direction as you.  If you think about it long enough, you can almost calculate the probability of meeting some people, and then characterize that person as, say, a "one in a million" kind of a person when the meeting occurs.  I would probably have to add a few more zeros to Maya's characterization, as the odds of my meeting a charming, Russian-speaking Fordham graduate who majored in economics, and is a dog lover who enjoys camping and New York, passions of my own, in a chance occurrence are far greater than one on a million.