{"id":32078,"date":"2025-12-08T06:11:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T06:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/?p=32078"},"modified":"2025-12-08T18:16:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T18:16:36","slug":"a-week-for-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vicsocotra.com\/wordpress\/a-week-for-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"A Week for Peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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We are starting the second week of Advent, and we hope you can help us remember it is no longer \u201cHope,\u201d but the \u201cPeace\u201d that we can bring to our affairs on this small part of this Earth. Accordingly, we asked some of the Zoomers to do a short piece on where we live. The Boomers did a book about life in the fifteen-minutes of being unexpectedly single at the turn of the century.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They think the three subsequent iterations of the human experience ought to contribute their own thoughts.
Holly was put in charge, since she is a Millennial and has that kind of receptive nature to change to inspire the GenZ and X\u2019ers who are hoping to scrape some lines for the resumes off the old-timers who brought their iPads glowing with news that the vaccine they were forced to take were actually sort of dangerous and in fact almost killed Vic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was the image on his screen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miles told him to put down the tablet with the screen down on the conference table. \u201cThe Chairman told you to not bring up that medical stuff, Vic. It may have killed you after they made you get vaccinated to travel on airliners, and they may have known the mRNA component of the spike protein could have caused your vascular problems.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Vaxx almost cost me my legs,\u201d Vic said with a pensive grimace. \u201cI am hoping to be able to walk again in a new year filled with Peace. And right here to see them start building on top of the parking lot next next door.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holly leaned over and grabbed the designer handbag she had started carrying after that meeting with the Pharmaceutical salesman last week. \u201cI told the Zoomers to take a look at what hey put on top of the crossroads at Farmer Tyson\u2019s Peach Grove. That picture at the top is from 1940 in the groves that used to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat came next?\u201d asked Olivia, a vivacious young woman who hoped to parlay the Socotra House lines on her resume into something that actually had benefits. Her gender alignment degree from Brown hadn’t produced anything except $175,254 dollars in debt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe national Automotive Dealers Association Headquarters.NADA. It was a massive thing, help up by three silos of concrete acting as a beacon for drivers from the city way out in the country. Plenty fo space for Dealers, Cars, Parking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rocket laughed. \u201cYou just summed up the 1970s out here in Fairfax. There was plenty of room.\u201d He picked up Vic\u2019s tablet, flipped it over and entered search-term \u201cNADA HQ\u201d in the little box at the top of the screen:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is the spot where this conference room was located in 1978.\u201d He turned it around for display:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat was what this place looked like until after the turn of the century. The picture was collected by the Fairfax Reporter, before that paper folded into the more residential mixed-use neighborhood,\u201d said Olivia. “I will have more on that for you tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMaybe we can jam it into a Fifteen Minute County story about Pharmaceuticals and real property devand Splash might have already started on Happy Hour.elopment.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There were some absent nods around the table and people started to think about Peace. And Lunch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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