Pete in DC

It happens to each of us and to everything, I guess. Borges lamented that "our minds are porous and forgetfulness seeps in..." -- that time trudges onward, change exacts its toll, and the machinery of life grinds on, regardless.

And so I opened the latest issue of Panorama. Here, too, the relentless onslaught of time had eroded what once was:

There wasn't a SINGLE "mint," "rare," "stainless sills!", etc. 993 S or C4S asking over "$65,000 - FIRM"!

CRUEL WORLD!