My father's wife, Donna Kalter, is a youthful 76 year old woman who is a graphic artist and a fine artist, and was a wonderful companion to my father for the last 34 years of his life. She called me this morning to tell me she is almost done scanning the pictures she has of my father and making prints for me. She knows how to do all that, even make the fuzzy ones sharper--she has all kinds of graphic equipment, lucky me.
She also wanted to tell me she had been Googling "George Kalter" (something it never occurred to me to do) and found a blog post called George Kalter's Hat, with a picture of the pith helmet he used to wear. Let us now sing praises to the beauty of the internet! A little piece of my father memorialized in a blog post by a stranger who never knew him. Thank you, Kelly Dauterman.
In this altered state, through these last months with my father and since his death, everything is meaningful. In that world, Kelly's last name is no coincidence.
