Wonderful account of your teenage years. Nature kept me sane as a teenager too, and still does, although it seems much harder to come by these days. There I am free to just be. Did going to college end all of that?

Very interesting look into you. Thank you.

Life under Franco - I have this notion that Franco was so long ago, but here I was just a bit older than you. A wake up call really. We lived under these conditions, our children playing alone or with relatives, producing papers to go to school or a restaurant, recently. And will do so again when they tell us to. Unless we don't.