벌써 가을이 왔도다. 

아침은 늦게 밝고 오후는 일찍 어둡네.

이 시대 이 고장에서 아마 기러기떼는 보기 힘들겠지만, 내가 살았던 Rochester 지역에는 기러기가 꽤 많았다. 

멀지 않아서 이 해가 가고, 우리는 조금씩 늙어간다. 

섭섭할 것없다. 이게 모두 인과이기 때문에, 나지 않았으면 죽지 않았겠고, 자라지 않았으면 늙지 않았겠지. 

나의 궤변인가? Maybe.

하여간 남은 기간동안 아직도 좀 할 일은 있다. 

여러분 모두 좋은 가을 만끽하세요. 

Doc, I wish you have a nice autumn season as well and finish what you have to do.

After the bad spell of the Covid disaster, we all feel the finality of our life

much closer than we thought before.

Maybe, we should have learned some lessons out of the pandemic.

Thank you very much. 

I also wish you a great fall season.

I certainly wish the dreadful Covid to leave us completely and forever, but no one seems to know its prognosis.

If we have to live with it, we have no choice but to accept the situation.

Even so, we have to be optimistic and determined to live with whatever comes to us.

I was watching the LPGA tournament in the late morning and early afternoon.

The bone marrow doctor told my wife not to take airplanes for a while, but driving would be OK.

Actually, we prefer driving anyway.  We will be heading to California in about two weeks

if the Covid situation in the Orange County of California is acceptable to us. 

Driving to California through Colorado, Utah, and Nevada is always wonderful

with fall colors along the Colorado River valleys and white-capped peaks along the way.

 Yes, my wife and I miss groups of Canadian geese flying over our heads very much in this particular seasons.

Not only in the sky, they moved in the lake in big groups, and much smaller ducks mingled with them since they were peaceful birds. 

Occasionally we had shot gun sounds nearby in the fall and found sham geese which the guys caught and broke their necks easily!!! I thought he actually broke the geese and ganders' necks, but they were models. 

Occasionally I've seen deer swimming in the lake from the west to east, but they were so shy animals.

Years ago, a group of wild turkeys moved from the mext door neighbor's yard to ours, stayed sometime in our back yard eating and pecking some worms(P), and then flew their heavy bodies between trees. 

It was our best golden years in the lake home for almost 30 years, at first in the hundred year old cottage, and then replaced by a nice timber fremed two story house. 

But a few years ago, we were getting too tired to manage the property for lawn mowing, picking of fallen leaves from old and big oak trees and finally dreadful snow storms. 

In our current apt, there is nothing we are concerned about, Everything has  been handled whenever I go to the concierge. 

So this is our way to live at this age. 

Incidentally we met our classmates periodically at the Dong Bang Grill periodically, having lunch with wives, whom Kihyun dubbed "our better halves"? There were Kihyun Han, Hong Binn Lee, Jinhong Kim, Yungsup Yoon, Jaeok Chu, Taekyong Ban, and me. Everyone drove big cars except me and offered ride, but it was just two blocks from Dong Bang to my apt. 

We might meet around the end of the year. I missed almost everything they were talking about due to hearing loss, though I could talk freely in my strong Korean accent. 

Once in a while, I took the shuttle to cross the George Washington Bridge to 178th W Street, Manhattan, where I took subway train to go anywhere in Manhattan and visited the place of my interest. 

When we go to Jim's Franklin condo, we called Uber taxicab costing about $50 to $60 incluiding tips. 

I claim to be a half New Yorker though my twin grandchildren don't agree, who were born right in Manhattan.

They claim only three of them were true New Yorkers including Jim, their dad, who was born in Bronx, New York, and don't include Esther, their mom, who was born in Korea.

My friends, time flows steadily and relentlessly, and we keep moving from the beginning to the end. So the great law of Universe is so fair!!! I am one of Buddhists, but I personally believe there is God, this universal principle. 

Have great time.