The greensward glistened in all its rain-softened lushness before us. My professor friend and two more elderly gents who happened to join us stepped to the tee box with visions of par dancing in our heads.
The maitre d’hôtel of this paradise, a diminutive crew-cut son of Italy, had welcomed us with a smile and laugh, greeting me with a “Happy New Year” and a handshake. I had not visited his Tuscan villa off the Interborough for almost a year, but he constructed a perfect bacon and egg sandwich on a roll with butter to properly slicken my right hand in preparation for the first swing of the driver. Predictably, I dribbled it up the middle and lost my second shot in the deep rough.
A repeatable swing I have. I just want to replace it with a good one. Shot the same score on the back nine as the second, but need to lower each by ten, a seemingly impossible task but one which I will pursue this sporting season with all the zest of our host. I was in fat city, so to speak, all day, but not living off the fat of the land. Pitches that should have landed pin high for a chance turned into three-shot chunks and then three-putts.
Our majordomo showed up again driving the beverage cart as the professor searched for his ball in the trees and rough to the left of the 14th green. “Hey, it’s on the cart path, shankanopolous. Take a drop” he roared. We roared as well.
But life is good. On the 15th, over the water, hit the green and made par. The 16th, eminently birdie-able, became multibogey-able, and the rest I’ll leave to your imagination.
Yet I believe in the future, just as Miss Market does. This redoubtable dame refuses to give into the gloom. The world economy is braking well short of the depression that helped spawn a global war which shaped the world for us boomers. The New York Times' Krugman on the skeptical center-left and the Washington Post's Samuelson on the skeptical center-right are way too pessimistic.
Many more jobs vanished in the USA in April, but the pace is slowing. Australia reported a decline in its unemployment rate. China alleges a firming of demand. Oil is climbing.
Just as I will fix my wedge play, Miss Market will not be denied. She must have her way. Stay with F, PALM, AMD, DDR, SLV, DXO and NVAX.
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