Dear Beloved friends, Every sentient being, on every inhabited planet in the Universe, gathers together for warmth and comfort and camaraderie and big hugs for one another on the Winter Solstice, at Christmas, on the longest night of the year….because they know that they must all congratulate each other for finally being… …half-way out of…

Well here in Arizona the Governor decreed that all the flags be put at half mast for “A DAY THAT WILL LIVE IN INFAMY!” On December 7th, 1941, my grandmother, Ruth O’Day Morton Croft, my step-grandfather, Airplane Mechanic Theodore Teddy Croft, and my father and uncle, were all stationed at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on that…