Two men smiling, one holding a small white dog, standing indoors with a brick wall background.

find the commonality

“Whno sugar coat with LaGrange Jim, he will give you an unvarnish piece of his mind a refreshing paradox to the era of snowflakes , …

That SOB served in Navy, served in Korea. So much of veteran focus on the recents.  Jim is an ancient, deserves credit too.

o’sWe take our occasional junket to Parque Jim.  When you really need him to dish some sage wisdom … POOF he’s there.  Dad calls him the ‘Holy Ghost.’  Those two born in same hospital, 13-years removed so you can sense the kindred.  Jim doesn’t kinda has a routine but most certainly a ‘venture radius.  Not a bad idea for a 73-years living in cuidado peligroso.  His Exploration radius is 2-miles.  That’s 1/50th 90pct of Colombiano.  Head to parque Jim, POOF guess who’s there.  “Hey Jim let’s go get lunch and not taking no for an answer. Restaurant, about a 15-minute walk away in trendy, totally safe area of town.  But out of Jim’s comfort zone, a place Jim normally not dare venture. Crossing busy street, I looked up at Dad, no artful dodger shit like you normally pull.   Jim’s fragile.  Dad had one hand grasping Jim’s hand, Dad’s other hand over Jim’s shoulder we made in.  Jim looks at menu, hyroglipics.  We Called over waiter we trusted.  “Hey, pick out something gringo Viejo might like.”  Jim sawed it down like going to electric chair.  We never saw Jim again.  As we walked away Dad looked me square in the eye, “Apoyo y ayude siempre.”  Jim did that with us, y Tambien.  Do something you didn’t want to do Dad. this good looking fella? Well he is a man of great simpicity. Mayor of Isla Hollandaisa the futhest east of the unspoiled archipego of 365 islands, in the Atlantic side of Panama. known as San Blas San Blas Well it used to be 365 islas, now we/re down to 362, Hmm … how did that happen? And this one is might be the next to get consumed.

Talk about an aventura, well this one was Top 5. After Twinkle got her swimming in, she was welcomed to the canino. The number of dogs in this tiny jewel is slightly larger than the number of humas.

When Dad had a bad day, he’d watcjh this thing called ‘Gilligan’s Islands’ said, i couldn’t understand the humor but Dad was laughing his ass off said something about memoried of his youth. “Twink this is well this is Gilligan’s Island, except it’s inhabited by a tribe of endigenous people.”

See the thachted huts, there’s ten of them that live in there. Do they have TV’s electricity? well sometimes.

It’s dinner time, the Mayor instructs one of his lieutnenants to go scale the tree which would be the sauce in which he’d sautee the freshly caugh fish. Dad this is delicious. And the stories en espanol lasted well into the night.

Instead of joinig us noticed The Mayor’s daughter,, about 8-years old was punching on mobile phone. Not only was her home ready to be engulfed, but her innocence was lost,