. Dear San Felipe,
This one is a little different.
There’s no new business to tell you about. No upcoming event. No change around town that you need to know about.
Just a thought that’s been sitting with me lately.
We talk about getting older as though it means something is being lost. We call ourselves old, older, retired, elderly—as if those words somehow tell the whole story.
But think about what we actually carry with us.
If you grew up in the 1940s, ’50s, ’60s, or ’70s, you have lived through an astonishing piece of history. You remember a world of rotary phones, encyclopedias, handwritten letters, and televisions with rabbit ears. And you’ve watched that world become smartphones, the internet, and now artificial intelligence.
Then many of us came to San Felipe carrying another history with us—decades of work, family, friendships, adventures, mistakes, successes, losses, reinventions, and stories.
We are, whether we realize it or not, living history.
And that got me thinking about what happens to all that history when the people who lived it are no longer here to tell it.
Because San Felipe is changing. It always has.
And someday, someone will want to know what this place was like—not just the dates and buildings and businesses, but who lived here, why they came, what they loved, what they struggled with, and what made them decide to stay.
Maybe that is one of the things Turn Left at the Cactus has been doing all along.
We’ve been preserving a little piece of San Felipe’s history.
This episode's Fork in the Road is my personal musing about getting older, the extraordinary history each of us carries, and why taking the time to listen to one another may matter more than we think.
So this one is for all of us who have a few
Because the stories of San Felipe aren’t just about this place.
They are the people who made it home.
Turn Left at the Cactus
Everyone has a story.
-Cal
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