Down, Not Out
Down, not out
Its not who we are
Not destined to be
There again
Setting out
Tasked with
Learning how to win
Discovering difficulty
Almost everyday
Along each road taken
When the lights come on again
All over our world
Rewards mostly forgotten
Somehow not forsaken
We prepare for tomorrow
With yesterday’s gifts in hand
Believing the lights will come on again
All over our world
And God-willing
For all the people we will
Continue to touch
Though life remains
An abstraction of the love
We vow to forever seek
For an educated man
Must always share
Regardless of times so bleak!
– HK –
RECAPTION
The day was Tuesday, March 17, 2020. Kalmenson & Kalmenson had twenty classes, per week, being conducted by our seventeen teachers at three locations here in southern California. It was on this day we began contacting each of our current students—as well as all students who had paid in advance for an up and coming course of study—personally by telephone, in order to announce the temporary suspension of our current and future classes until further notice. We explained to each and everyone of them: “It would probably be about three months before we would most likely become able to return to business as normal, once again.”
It has been seventeen months subsequent to our fateful announcement. Since I had never been trained to abandon ship, the thought of learning a new craft wasn’t on the agenda!
