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Pardon My Petulance

Lowen Baumgarten

Dec 31, 2011 — 1 min read

After I complained the other day about getting too much family time over the holidays, I started to feel bad. There were actually a lot of wonderful moments with my brother, parents, aunts & uncles, and grandparents that I'm thankful for:

Hiking through the marshes at Shoreline while the sun set on Christmas Day with my folks and my bro.
My grandfather passing on all the books that helped him become a writer over his career.
Getting to talk politics with my aunt (like me, an ex-Washingtonian) at the dinner table. We downloaded an electoral college app and, while finishing our apple pie, hashed out different paths for an Obama victory.
Playing Power Rangers with the 3- and 5- year-old kids of my parents' best friends.
Dinner over at the Cantler house.
Walking up and down Manhattan Beach in a t-shirt.

So, yeah, I missed my independent, walkable life in the City, but it wasn't so awful. Most of the time, it was kind of great.

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