Prometheus was a descendent of the Titans in the stories of the Greek gods. Titans were giant deities, older than the Olympian gods, but who’d been defeated by these more socially sophisticated arrivals.

When I was 11 my grandfather, who lived in downtown Baltimore, died and it tore my childhood heart apart.

I didn’t know my mom’s dad that well, other than I shared his nose and “barrel chest”, that he made wooden toys for me, and I saw his face every time I ventured into my parents room on an old copper hewed military photograph.