Listening today to last half hour of Partnership for Public Service/Miller Center {+] hosted panel about federal transitions brings to mind what might have been for younger sibling who was a natural for politics and instinctively knew he needed to be closer to D.C. attending one of the private schools where it seemed young people learn how to dinner party (à la Anne Applebaum in her latest book). In contrast we lived at the outer edges of the bedroom communities among adults who after lengthy commutes wouldn’t talk—or couldn’t—(or maybe waited for curious young people to ask)—about their work days. Of the closest friends not parented by attorneys, one married couple (both) worked for CIA or FBI (not recalling which), and another worked on developing emergency procedures in the case of nuclear events (or something to that effect).
The latter one comes to mind at this personal shift back to Virgo, especially two moments: a long run with him in Ocean City, July of 1979, and the bookend to it several months later in November. And so much gratitude for his influence, especially on the other side of this year-long transition with moments feeling near breaking points. Also for the coach he led us to who took us to interval workouts environ Catoctin, 10-mile long runs (one 20) on the C&O, a 10K at the Tidal Basin, and designed our home course at DOE ending with a hill. For those two: gratitude, gratitude for the lessons about stamina. Still working on the mental and the emotional, but drawing from that physical distance training to this day.
Friday, October 2, 2020, local, CDT:
Natal progressed Mercury 29° 59′ Rx Virgo
Venus ingress Virgo 15:48
Image: FDR monument dedicated May 2, 1997 (Wikimedia).