Turning cold. It’ll be colder, they say, over the weekend, like full-blown winter without snow cover.

Why am I hearing so much about Kennedy? Lilly asked the other day. She’d heard something on TV, or something at school, or somewhere. I told her it was the 50th anniversary of his death on Friday. After that, you won’t hear so much, unless you take a special interest.

Will there be much interest in 2063? I doubt it, but I’ll also never know. President Kennedy won’t be completely forgotten, of course, even as his life and unfortunate death slip from living memory (I’m on the leading edge of people who don’t remember him – the majority of the world now).

I suspect his memory will shrink, just as it has, say, for President McKinley. Who has his place in the collective memory, and a physical memorial, too. Just not a very well known one. One of these days, I need to take a look at it, but I seldom make it over to Ohio.