una cervasa, por favor.......

ok, so that is the extent of my spanish.......give or take a few food words.........today i had 3 clients who came with an interpretor...........i have done the interpretor thing with the deaf....but it is not as difficult because many can read lips to some extent.......but spanish is something else alltogether..............i have spent a lifetime learning and forgetting french.........but maybe i can pick up enough spanish to come across as reasonably empathic......rather than just mean..............speaking of which, on our way home from the cross country meet.....cayle and listened to the bbc news.......which gave it's sign-on as gmt............greenwich mean time..........i started laughing, because time is so very mean...................which reminds me of one of my spanish-speaking clients today.............she was so very tiny and thin.....and looked so very fragile...............and vulnerable............and she had only been in this country since november, according to the interpretor...................it is customary for migrant workers to save up to bring family members to live with them in america..............and she looked so old.............until i checked her birthday..............she was a full 6 months younger than me..............oh my..............that is no reflection on me.....just a window to the world...............most people are not so lucky as i am................and in so many ways.............the talk at the meet was about the murder in danville.....across the street from my children's babysitter (we are talking many years ago....) and across from a woman in my sunday school class who lost her husband to a freak heart thing.........his next door neighbor shot him with a rifle while he was mowing the yard.............3-5 times depending on who you talk to...............in broad daylight...........over a property line dispute............the man had not been retired for long.................and now he is dead and his wife is a widow...........in idyllic little danville these things just do not happen..............which brings me back to my original sentiment................una cervasa, por favor..........life is too short not to.................