It is with a heavy heart

...I write this, my bar, yes my bar, just burned down. For those of you who have a "bar of your own" where you meet all your friends, where everyone knows you, where the events of not only your life but countless others were Celebrated or Mourned you know my pain, the pain of friends, of a neighborhood, of a community. Yes, dear reader, I have lost some of my roots today. JQP