Chilmark softball — always on Sunday, started 80 years ago at Hazel Flanders’s back lot. It moved to Toomey’s field and is now ensconced at Flanders Field off Tabor House Road. Did you know that Jerry Kohlberg, owner of the Vineyard Gazette, once played in the games?

As some of you may know, I have been operating for two years, along my with partner Melody Cunningham (widow of the late, great reggae legend, Peter Tosh) a Jamaican-style food truck (Irie Bites) out of Vineyard Haven. Recently, a golden opportunity has presented itself.

I am writing this letter to thank Lori Mahoney for an incredible act of kindness, which reaffirmed my belief in human goodness.

I was driving on the Vineyard Haven-Edgartown Road last week looking for a flowering hanging basket for my deck when suddenly my car started to veer off the road with a loud bang! Fortunately, I was almost opposite Jardin Mahoney’s Garden Center and so I limped into the parking lot, jumped out of my car and viewed a totally flat tire.

It seems the wheels fell off the Obama Express just as the victory celebration ended. The hangover has set in and it may last four more years, if he survives the gods of politics. Suddenly, even ardent supporters are stunned as they watch their leader stumble from one crisis to the next.

Take 50 hardy hikers for eight hours and walk 18 miles from one side of Martha’s Vineyard, Katama Point Preserve, to the other, Lambert’s Cove Beach, and you have the 21st Martha’s Vineyard Land Bank cross-Island hike. A lot of energy expended on a great adventure!

There I was, relishing my steamed lobster on special at the Net Result picnic table on gorgeous, brilliant June 1. In point of fact, I was a tad too enthusiastic about that cute crustacean, what with it being my first day of a months-long staycation, so I stupidly gulped entirely too much too prematurely.