Day after tomorrow will be another day in a long line of shoulda coulda woulda days.  It shoulda been the day we’d all see one another at the World Kite Museum in Long Beach as we celebrated Kay Buesing’s remarkable life.  It coulda been the most memorable day of the 2021 International Kite Festival.  And I have no doubt that it woulda been terrific

But the uncertainties of the Covid virus and its spin-offs just made it all too iffy.  If even one person got just a little bit sick due to attending… well, it doesn’t bear thinking about.  So, wisely but with heavy hearts, Kay and Jim’s family put a halt to the proceedings.  I can totally empathize.  When we had to call off the 2021 Oysterville Vespers’ season at the eleventh hour I, too, was heartsick.  And, even worse is the wondering — what next and for how long?

Meanwhile, Kay and Jim’s personal kites still await an appropriate time to be auctioned off, the proceeds earmarked for the Kite Museum.  It seems only fitting that they should be auctioned at a time when as many kite flyers as possible could have an opportunity to bid.  During the Kite Festival would have been ideal.  Is it too trite to say,  the answer to when the auction will occur is blowin’ in the wind…