Just Fate

In Greenfield Mass in 1958 there was Roberts School where my mother sent me, perhaps just because of the name, and her sense of irony. JFK was running for Senator in Mass and came all the way up the hill to Roberts School in his long black Cadillac. He put a gold star on a paper I wrote, and tousled my hair and said something nice about my paper. The photo of all that is in my mind not in a camera, not on paper, more’s the pity. Five years later JFK went to Dallas and he was shot in the head. His smile stayed in my head. And even to this day 68 years later.