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Classic Hexagon Dress watch from Bulova. The chasing is in great condition and the back is covered in service marks so it was well taken care of over the years. I’ve cleaned and polished the dial. I haven’t seen any other models with the bar markers. I’m putting this model up for sale and keeping the Rose Gold Bulova for the collection.

Photos updated as restoration progresses.

March 15th was a day I knew how I was going to feel as it was the first anniversary of my Fathers passing. I woke up and went about my usual routine, making coffee and looking out the window to see what the weather had in store. As I was sitting down snow the started to fall and I gazed out while remembering my Dad. I’m grateful we reconnected while I was in my early thirties and enjoyed a good relationship until his death from Parkinson’s Disease. While looking out a blue balloon drifted past my window on the way to the beach and I watched as it was battered by snow and seemed to dodge and weave it’s way home.? I suppose if I was religious or had some other mythology to cling to I could have seen that as a sign, but instead I chose empathy for the child who’d just lost his balloon. That’s one of the things Dad taught me.

The previous evening my Mother called me and we talked a little about what happens after you die. I may have been a little uninspiring, being comfortable with the “Not” school of thought on death. I don’t remember any consciousness before I was born and I won’t remember any after I’m dead was my standard reply. Someone had told her God puts obstacles and hardship in our path to teach us about ourselves and life.

Now when ever I hear this I refer to nature as a guide because that is the world we live in. When an animal encounters an obstacle he either reverses direction or finds a way around it and moves on. I’m pretty sure he doesn’t spend the rest of his day contemplating why the obstacle was there or develops an ulcer thinking that obstacle was put there on his behalf. He’s missing the ego that personalizes every event in his life.

That is what I dislike about the religion that permeates western society. It’s responsible for cutting off all communication with Nature and made us into minor deities and masters of a world we know little about. We rationalize mass destruction with the safety of being formed in a higher beings image that can do little wrong without being forgiven after.

A common statement I’ve heard over the last fifty years is how certain middle eastern societies are backward because they rejected the industrial revolution as evil. The problem to me is they continue this statement even when the evidence is all around them that these people were right. The damage mass consumption and greed has left on our planet has come to the point where we are killing ourselves with our own progress.

I believe it was Plato that said the smallest element in our existence is a direct reflection of the largest. This makes perfect sense when comparing physics to astronomy and it isn’t hard to relate it to our society as well. The bottom of our social framework is populated by people who drink, inject and consume substances which they know will kill them, but the drive overcomes all logic and reason. The top of the social ladder consume in the very same way and the rest aspire to reach that goal. The Atom and it’s rotational elements mirror the planets as the Addict mirrors the CEO.

This is what I know about Death:

Whatever is supposed to happen after I die is going to happen regardless of which book I read or what Idol I bow to. I can no more influence the event or what happens after any more than? I can stop a tidal wave or ride a tornado. That’s what gives me comfort as I grow older and nearer the time I end here. I’ll be as kind to others as I can and share as much as I can. I’ll try and make my foot print as small as possible and take no more than I need. I will always choose to create rather than destroy and plant as many seeds as I can. I don’t need a book when my conscience is always with me and far easier to understand.

This is what my Father taught me.

Thank you Dad, I love you and I miss you.

Robert