Surfin' USA

I happened across this video on this rainy Monday morning and just thought it was a nice "no-brainer". Besides, I love the Beach Boys tune playing along with it.



That tune, Surfin' USA, also took me back to Huntington Beach, California, during the summer of 1967...a long time ago when I had some hair and a hankerin' to try surfing myself.

Hair

Being a child of the 60s generation when hair, hair and more hair was the way to go, at first it was hard to handle when mine began vacating my head in great numbers. Nice heads of hair seem to be prevalent in we Griffith men, as you can see by looking at these photos of my two sons from days gone by:

Glenn, around age 8

Greg at age 5 or so

Well, just so you two know, the Old Man also had a fine head o' hair at one point in his life, many years ago. As evidence, I give you this photo of me on Huntington Beach, California, just 45 years ago:

More hair, less belly!

So my point is simply this:  Glenn...Greg...watch out, your day may be coming!!!

Bald In...Bald Out

Interesting, is it not, that in a number of ways we seem to make a great circle through our lives. For instance, these two photos of me at the ripe old age of 6 months or so show a very definite lack of natural head covering.

Mom and I sharing a laugh.

My sister, Judy, and me.

What a cue ball, eh? Well, I've gone full circle now, sporting no more hair than I did 60+ years ago. At least I do have much more of a beard than I did back then!

Grandson Jack and Grandpa a couple years back.

Final thought: I notice I'm wearing diapers in those topmost photos; thankfully that circle hasn't yet completed!