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Mountain Air
12 September 2020
When a member of the Giants organization tested positive for Covid-19 yesterday, the game against the Padres was canceled (as is today's game), so we grabbed our iPhone, opened the Hoopla app and looked for a movie from our public library account.
Joyce has preferred lighter fare lately so I swiped this way and that looking for something we hadn't seen. Finally I ran across a movie I was sure we must have seen (in some incarnation or other) but neither of us remembered.
It was the 2005 British film Heidi with Max von Sydow as the grandfather and Irish actress Emma Bolger as Heidi. But wait, there's more. Geraldine Chaplin plays the mean Rottenmeier and Diana Rigg plays the kind Grandmamma who teaches Heidi to read.
Both von Sydow and Riggs recently passed away, alas.
As we watched the ebullient little girl win over her grandfather (and everyone but Rottenmeier), we remembered sadly we had once (long ago) given the book Heidi to niece Gina.
Anyway, it was a lovely movie, ending with the invalid Clara learning to walk again when she spends the summer with her friend Heidi up on the mountain. Inspiration for Joyce, no doubt.
We could use a little mountain air even if we are 550 feet above sea level in a city that only goes a little over 920 at its highest (the nearby Mount Davidson).
PurpleAir. This is from sensors just a few blocks away on Mount Davidson over the last few days. The lower line is indoor air quality, which stays in the green, but the two outdoor sensors peaked near the limit yesterday.
There was some fog this morning and the sky is brighter than it has been in days, so while the air quality remains unhealthy, it's improving.
Heidi, were she here, would have a big smile on her face. "I can't wait until we go out for a walk in the high meadow again, Grandfather!" she would be saying.
"Not yet but soon, Heidi," he would say. "Very soon."