8:10) chris abraham 02-SEP-97 11:48

"Chocolate City" t-shirts. "3 for $10," Hope reminds me. Thin transparent cotton dishrags with "Washington Blues." Sadly, Bart Simpson is suffering a decline. His "Don't have a Cow, Man," used to be a classic, used to make young children smile when your returned home from Washington. Such a wonderful momento along with the foil packet of astronaut freeze-dried icecream one dad kept hidden after the boys had eaten all their before even leaving the Smithsonian. That one packet shared together at Walt Whitman rest stop way up I-95 on the way back to Queens. The freeze-dried ice-cream reminds me of my father's ashes as I emptied them from an oak box into the midnight blue sea off Waikiki. The freeze-dried icecream reminds me of the ashes held tight by a Boston family for all to share later, when everybody has all but forgotten.