A few moments later, he returned with an altar-boy carrying a crucifix, and a sacristan who walked before them ringing a bell to announce that the Lord was coming to the house of the dying woman.
It seemed of little practical value, but he liked designing and building the equipment— and driving back and forth along the Pacific Coast Highway to his sampling site at Big Sur was fun.
“The greatest cause for optimism is . . . when our people come together. We see a lot of ourselves in each other – a striving entrepreneurial spirit, and optimism about the future.”
Both knew each other: the boy was that one among the children who could not come because he had to go home and return his jacket and boots to the innkeeper's son.