Then Again

• LoEnd老字号

  2014-05-20
  Before Dad sliced and diced the land for housing developments in OC during the sixties and seventies, he was just a kid with his nose pressed against a window, watching his mother play poker until midnight in one of the gambling boats off Catalina. Before he spearheaded the design of curbs and gutters that kept water flowing safely to store drains,he was also a high diver on the USC diving team. As an adult,Jack Hall took pride in severing the earth into blocks of mathematical reason.Sometimes i wonder if Dad decided to become a civil engineer because it gave him the illusion that he could change something as big and unpredictable as the earth. As a boy he learned he would never be able to change his mother. Mary Hall was never going to hold him tight,or praise him,or wipe away his tears...