A Certain Point of View, Too

Musings & Thoughts for Monday, October 31, 2022, or: Things I Miss

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Alex Diaz-Granados
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Things I Miss (An Incomplete and Ever-Changing List)


An “olleta” or “chocolatera” (hot chocolate pitcher) with a wooden blender. Image Credit: IMUSA via Amazon

“People often miss things that don’t exist–miss things that were but are not anymore.”
― Sarah McCoy, The Baker’s Daughter

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 “I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale

  1. Colombian-Style Hot Chocolate
  2. Sex
  3. Stimulating Face-to-Face Conversations
  4. Going to the Movies with Friends
  5. The House on SW 102nd Avenue and 10th Street
  6. Relationships with Compatible Partners
  7. “Evening at Pops” on PBS
  8. Having My Own Place (I know, I know…I can’t afford to live on my own, especially in Florida, but I did, sort of, have my own place for a while….)
  9. Doing My Own Grocery Shopping
  10. Walking to a Nearby Restaurant Whenever I Wanted
When I lived in South Florida, I often waited till early evening to go for walks in the summertime. (Photo taken on June 5, 2014 by the author)
A not-so-great photo I took the last time I went to my neighborhood Denny’s in Park Hill Plaza near my former home in South Florida.