[Rockingham]

My brother and I went on a brief shopping errand tonight. As usual, he had the Tom Petty channel on XM and was wearing a Tom Petty cap. My brother was in Tampa at one of Tom Petty's last concerts and thought that he looked ill and seemed to limp. That was due to a broken hip that never healed properly and led to Petty's accidental overdose on pain meds.

Orlando has changed dramatically, but many of the settled old residential neighborhoods have endured almost untouched -- except for a ten to fifteen times run up in home prices over fifty years. The old Orlando courthouse is now a history museum, with my father's old courtroom as it was decades ago.

[FamiliarFace]

I have my radio set to channel 31. It’s almost all I listen to. Occasionally I change to something else, but not often. I saw TP when he came through Indy in 2017. Amazingly, I had never been to one of his shows before. Not that I went to many concerts. I could never afford the tickets. But that year we sprang for them as an anniversary gift to each other. It was one of the best shows I’ve ever seen, though like I said, I had only been to a select few in my life.

I doubt I would recognize the Orlando of my childhood, but then everything has grown and changed. They tell us it’s progress. I’m not so sure about that.