Free Range by Bill Whitehead for January 24, 2022

“Bummershoot”.

All that summer we employed it…

How to win friends

Gee gwanny. What a big umbrella you got.

Sad, days long gone of people being this socially close. (I’m not referring to Covid, just socializing in general)

Won’t you be my neighbor?

The Lion Sleeps to Night

Guess they weren’t in the Boy/Girl Scouts …preparedness

Feeling a little under the weather.

Shameful. Because of rain they did not properly perform social distancing. Chose risking covid over risking pneumonia.

The rain it raineth on the just

And also on the unjust fella;

But chiefly on the just, because

The unjust hath the just’s umbrella.

—Charles Bowen

Song by the Hollies.

’Cuse me, social distancing please!

I would be elbowing them until they left. GTF away from me, people!

Very nice of you, ma’am.

Not much of a joke, is it.

“♬ Let it rain…let it rain…let your love rain down on me…♬” Eric Clapton

My sister and I went to The March for Science in DC in April 2017. We took our first trip on Amtrak in doing so. As the train rolled up to the station the rain began. There was only a small area up 4 brick steps to a doorway with an overhang to shelter in. We huddled together with a sense of camaraderie and quiet excitement. So many different ages and races, feeling warm together.