tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-77457583373278995642024-03-05T12:15:54.855-08:00WAUKESHA SEWER RACCOON NEWSA journal of sightings of raccoons coming out of and going into the storm grate at our corner in Waukesha WI. (& etc.) The bent is nature with occasional forays elsewhere.ZEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791124896859602554noreply@blogger.comBlogger1951125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745758337327899564.post-64682668078111576932018-01-13T09:29:00.000-08:002018-01-13T14:33:55.172-08:00Healthy advice to warring countries - Nuke Apples; Bespangled behemoth; Preserve Frame park; Imagine - guitar harp <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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You take a good Wolf River apple</div>
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preferably that juicy variety</div>
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obtained on a Saturday ride a half hour</div>
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south of Waukesha out East Avenue</div>
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to Ela Orchard, Rochester</div>
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a 3rd generation family connected</div>
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to my son in law</div>
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If you reach in the bag</div>
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and pull out a Wolf River big one</div>
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with a heart on the peel</div>
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so much the better for influence</div>
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Core out the center leaving a cavity</div>
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in which to pack in brown sugar, raisins;</div>
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a bit of ground clove, and a snippet of rum</div>
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Place apple in a microwave oven</div>
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for, say 5 minutes. Experiment with a bit more</div>
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Allow a minute after the nuclear blast to meld the flavors</div>
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An Ela Wolf River apple will literally explode</div>
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in the old covered Corning-ware casserole</div>
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<span class="410400923-09012018"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: x-large;">I have on my screensaver and will feature in the Raccoon</span> <span style="font-family: "courier new";"><span style="color: blue; font-size: x-large;"> an
underwater picture I took in the 70s and much later decided to amplify my
recollection with computer-drawn-in snapped fishing lures - of a Northern Pike
in Lake Lundgren near Pembine WI. See attached versification. I changed the
lake name.</span></span></span></div>
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<span class="410400923-09012018"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: x-large;">This lurking in the depth of the lake giant dragging
its accumulation of what amounted to a breastplate of lures that caught filtered
yet bright sunrays ~</span></span></div>
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<span class="410400923-09012018"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: x-large;">flashes of residual still-there color on the lures
caught my face-plated eyes before the fish did actually ~</span></span></div>
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<span class="410400923-09012018"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: x-large;">gave me just a passing glimpse of a great battle to
live. To survive the death-dealing trinketry attached to strong, but not strong
enough, lure linage. The fish bit through these invasions of his peace <strong>every time.</strong></span></span></div>
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<span class="410400923-09012018"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: x-large;">One supposes the stubborn finned one met an eventual
end by the overcoming weight of his e'r lurid armor.</span></span><br />
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<span class="410400923-09012018"><span style="color: blue; font-family: "courier new"; font-size: x-large;">But what a fight !</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Two classmates</b></span><br />
<b>of the Waukesha High School</b><br />
<b>- class of 1954 -</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">enjoy the peace and tranquility of Frame Park</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">which is under threat, <i>contrary</i> to the bequest</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">of the late philanthropist, </span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Waukesha's Andrew Frame</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">that the park be set aside for a wide and open green space</span></b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>next to the Fox River that flows through Waukesha.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Developers have their eyes on the White Rock corridor,</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>counting on the changing times in the community</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>allowing passage of a professional lease for a baseball stadium</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>going in the west end of Frame's reserve.</b></span><br />
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<b style="font-size: small;">We WHS 1954ans may have by virtue of age </b><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>some blindness, like the cat with just one eye that sees,</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>'BLINDY' the beloved </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Ela Orchard former barn cat -</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>now a welcome in-house older </b></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>resident. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>But we are clear-eyed, and</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: large;">with a gathered group of </span></b><br />
<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">"</span><span style="font-size: large;">Friends of Frame Park</span><span style="font-size: x-large;">"</span></i></b><br />
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<b>WE OPPOSE THIS, </b><br />
<b>YOUNGSTERS AND OLDSTERS ALIKE</b><br />
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The Formal Garden in Waukesha's Frame Park</div>
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It is a diamond in a donor-intended green grass setting<br />
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where citizens can find expansive escape, and beautiful prospects</div>
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unknown, no matter how lovely their littler yards may be</div>
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Let them stretch wide their legs here, as meant<br />
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and do the seventh inning stretching in a true ballpark fashion</div>
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Sardine-like; elsewhere</div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>[SRN Opinion 1-5-18]</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="color: red;">The Sons of </span><span style="color: #3d85c6;">The American Legion</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>I wore this now moth-eaten hat, so did cousin Craigie,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>after WW II was over</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>when my Dad and Craig's step-dad Uncle Lee who served</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>as the Commander of the DJ Martin Legion Post</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>in Waukesha were loyal ex-fighting-man members</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>of the that full-fledged band.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>I was proud of my heritage.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>You can still see these fortified country servants</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>gathered at streetside or marching if able</b></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Craigie</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Cousin like a brother</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "blackadder itc"; font-size: 72.0pt;">C</span>raigie 1942</div>
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His name was David C.
Craigmile</div>
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Son of my Aunt
Frances and a man called Chick</div>
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Chick Craigmile, I
didnāt know much about him</div>
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But I think like my
maternal grandfather</div>
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Herman Elies, a
miller by trade,</div>
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Chick and Herman were
rogues</div>
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So my boyhood friend
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Craigie and I</div>
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Were related to
rogues, we had roguery</div>
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In our blood, and we
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Naturally;</div>
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One time Aunt <st1:place w:st="on">Frances</st1:place>,
local beauty, was spotted in town by</div>
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Uncle Lee, long after
Chick and Herman blew the home scene</div>
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And Uncle Lee tracked
<st1:country-region w:st="on">Frances</st1:country-region> to the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placename w:st="on">Methodist</st1:placename> <st1:placetype w:st="on">Church</st1:placetype></st1:place></div>
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Where she sang in the
choir, good Welsh chorister</div>
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That she was<br />
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And Uncle Lee became a
Methodist in his method to meet her</div>
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Starting off a
romance with <st1:place w:st="on">Frances</st1:place>
and the church</div>
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That lasted Uncle Lee
ā not a rogue, ever ā</div>
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A lifetime</div>
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Faith and
faithfulness came to us spawn of rogues</div>
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But we were boys,
sons of rogues</div>
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And I donāt think it
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Uncle Lee became
Craigieās father</div>
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And tried to instill
Christian values</div>
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But it was too late;</div>
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By that time we were
picking pockets,</div>
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Stealing cookies and
fresh-baked pies</div>
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And later, planning
bank jobs</div>
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At the <st1:place w:st="on">Avon</st1:place> movies we sided with the bad guys</div>
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And went to the
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For black hats</div>
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Craigie taught me to
spit between my teeth and cuss</div>
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And get almost as
much distance and vehemence as he got</div>
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And at night on
sleep-overs we took flashlights</div>
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Under the blankets
and read our favorite stories,</div>
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<i> </i>Including <i>Seven Keys to Baldpate<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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Which we then
alternated telling by rote in the dark;</div>
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It was World War II
and at the <st1:place w:st="on">Avon</st1:place></div>
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We watched the RKO
newsreels</div>
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And saw how the Nazis
and the Japs were treating</div>
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Our American forces
in the French woods</div>
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And at <st1:place w:st="on">Bataan</st1:place>;</div>
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For a while I honored
Craigie with an heroic</div>
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Battlefield
name: <st1:place w:st="on">Corregidor</st1:place></div>
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Craigie was
interested in drums so</div>
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Uncle Lee got him a
set of used Slingerlands</div>
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And lessons</div>
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And through Craig I
learned about Gene Krupa</div>
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And took to revering
a paradiddling pothead;</div>
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We didnāt care if he
had a bad habit or two</div>
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Because he could wail
on the skins;</div>
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Craigie helped me practice tolerance;</div>
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Later Craigie served
a hitch in the Navy</div>
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The branch Uncle Lee
had been in</div>
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And did well until
while on board a ship</div>
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He dove into the pool
and cracked his head bad</div>
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And they gave him a
medical discharge</div>
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He returned to the
states and wasnāt quite</div>
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The same</div>
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But he married a nice
girl, worked hard and had two kids;</div>
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One day when I was in
the Army in 1958</div>
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They pulled me out of
formation at <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:placetype w:st="on">Fort</st1:placetype>
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To tell me Craigie
had died;</div>
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He blacked-out, it
was thought,</div>
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And plowed into the
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On the way to work;</div>
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Thus ended the life
of my brother</div>
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The end of a
beautiful friendship</div>
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The beginning of a
life without him</div>
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But his picture and his
spirit are nearby, </div>
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The boy who fought
for me when bullies threatened</div>
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Who traded a thousand
tales with me</div>
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Who when we walked
together</div>
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Threw his arm around
my shoulders</div>
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Because we were
buddies</div>
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Now he has Uncle Lee
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Along with his mother</div>
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Thatās the way we
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from</div>
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by John Frederick Nims<br />
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... thereāin fields of spaceāis where she shines,<br />
Ring-mistress of the circus of the stars,<br />
Their prancing carousels, their ferris wheels<br />
Lit brilliant in celebration. Thanks to her<br />
Allās gala in the galaxy.<br />
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Down here she<br />
Walks us just right, not like the jokey moon<br />
Burlesquing our human stride to kangaroo hops;<br />
Not like vast planets, whose unbearable mass<br />
Would crush us in a bear hug to their surface<br />
And into the surface, flattened. No: deals fairly.<br />
Makes happy each with each: the willow bend<br />
Just so, the acrobat land true, the keystone<br />
Nestle in place for bridge and for cathedral.<br />
Let us pick upāor mostlyāwhat we need:<br />
Rake, bucket, stone to build with, logs for warmth,<br />
The fallen fruit, the fallen child<br />
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. . . ourselves.<br />
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<br />ZEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791124896859602554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745758337327899564.post-27261419693539094502017-12-30T07:54:00.000-08:002017-12-30T09:07:10.575-08:00Have a sweet memoried New Year<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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When I was young</div>
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a very long time ago</div>
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to see my grandparents in Cedar Falls</div>
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I would sometimes go</div>
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and it was great</div>
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and it was jolly</div>
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but gramps axed chickens</div>
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he did; was no folly</div>
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He wore shaded visors and sleeve protectors</div>
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over his neck-tied shirtery</div>
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he once shot a bank rat</div>
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when as a teller felt murdery</div>
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Bonnie and Floyd robb-ed naught</div>
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Ames Iowa's little loanery</div>
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a bank with a screen door</div>
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and Ray wasn't squattery</div>
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"Watch out for that Ray</div>
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and his Dixian bravery!" said</div>
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awed street-dusted citizens</div>
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who checked at that door their worst knavery</div>
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and Ray's good wife Myrtle</div>
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served me oatmeal for breakfast</div>
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with a Shirley Temple pitcher</div>
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of 1930s cobalt blue</div>
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vesselry</div>
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It did no good to try</div>
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getting past of me</div>
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I wanted just that</div>
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no other dawn fare would do for me</div>
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me visiting e'r so happily</div>
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smiling Shirley focused all</div>
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for me in her in blue lapis lazuli</div>
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By and by Grandma died</div>
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but she left S. Temple, to me</div>
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and Ray left his margin-written flag</div>
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guarded, for me</div>
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I did lose the pitcher</div>
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I did lose the flag</div>
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But I just Yule-time ordered </div>
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a faded Shirley Temple pitcher</div>
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It's here; </div>
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and, for me</div>
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2017<br />
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ZEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791124896859602554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745758337327899564.post-75997207595939125112017-12-23T03:08:00.000-08:002017-12-23T03:08:56.501-08:00Christmas Eve dinner tonight; Annual cookie baking; Trombonic introductions; New Helt in town; Does it rime?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>Dee came home with a load of holiday groceries</b></div>
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<b>Our approaching Xmas Eve dinner</b></div>
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<b>- King Crab -</b></div>
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<b>my partner/34 years wife joyfully said.</b></div>
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Dee and Cathy again embark on their cheery baking<br />
this time at the Odd Fellows hall.<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>Born 12-18-17</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>to Aaron and Sarah Helt</b></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: xx-small;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>the second grandchild of John and Cindy Helt</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: large;"><b style="background-color: #ffd966;">Lyda Frances</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">It has nothing we know of to do with this</span></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #38761d; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">old favorite 'Lyda Rose' from the Broadway musical THE MUSIC MAN</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Wentworth Ave Bayview Xmas house this year</span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"><b>In many ways 2017 was a year that never was</b></span><br />
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<span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;"><b>We lift a year-end glass to approaching 2018</b></span><br />
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ZEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791124896859602554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745758337327899564.post-80224692122100622452017-12-16T07:05:00.000-08:002017-12-16T07:05:04.834-08:00A gaudy butterfly laid me, on a milkweed leaf she laid me; Unusual Christmas bird in the neighborhood; Tough sledding; OK <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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On a milkweed leaf she laid me</div>
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<span class="grame">with</span> no great hope of my
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<span class="grame">for</span> I was just one of a
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<span class="grame">she</span> deposited,</div>
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<span class="grame">flitting</span>, pausing, flitting,
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<span class="grame">my</span> mother's abdomen arching</div>
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<span class="grame">each</span> time and putting us down;</div>
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<span class="grame">we</span> pinheads were merely
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<span class="grame">that</span> made her feel good</div>
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<span class="grame">or</span> the result of an act that
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<span class="grame">or</span> not even that;</div>
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I don't know and will never know.</div>
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I ate my full engorgement of clean furrows</div>
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<span class="grame">in</span> the white-juiced leaves
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<span class="grame">to</span> a fat temptation for
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<span class="grame">that</span> eat the likes of me,</div>
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<span class="grame">but</span> the numbers had it</div>
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<span class="grame">that</span> I was one of the few who
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<span class="grame">never</span> got picked off in the
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<span class="grame">mandibles</span> of life.</div>
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<span class="grame">my</span> disappointment was
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I spun my waxy cocoon</div>
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<span class="grame">according</span> to pattern</div>
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<span class="grame">and</span> then, alas, instead of the
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<span class="grame">the</span> <span class="spelle">metanoia</span>,</div>
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I had my beauty taken from me</div>
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<span class="grame">and</span> my capsule gradually</div>
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<span class="grame">turned</span> black,</div>
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<span class="grame">and</span> as I lay dying inside,</div>
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<span class="grame">rotting</span> into a fetid inkiness,</div>
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<span class="grame">a</span> monarch's striving nature</div>
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<span class="grame">nonetheless</span> living still,</div>
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<span class="grame">my</span> little strength merged to</div>
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<span class="grame">poke</span> a pinhole in the bottom</div>
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<span class="grame">of</span> my <span class="spelle">enbindment</span>,
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<span class="grame">of</span> waning force I dripped this</div>
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<span class="grame">message</span> onto the leaf below,</div>
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<span class="grame">and</span> that is how you come </div>
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<span class="grame">to</span> read a distillation of all</div>
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I was ever to become,</div>
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<span class="grame">a</span> quotation, nothing more, but by a higher power than I:</div>
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<i>What we have to be<o:p></o:p></i></div>
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<i>Is what we are</i> - Thomas Merton </div>
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ZEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791124896859602554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745758337327899564.post-91255859594477707712017-12-15T09:14:00.000-08:002017-12-15T09:14:18.929-08:00test 11:13 AM 12-15-17ZEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791124896859602554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745758337327899564.post-38012789206968714042017-12-09T06:56:00.000-08:002017-12-10T17:41:50.225-08:00 Mexican manger juxtaposed on andiron welding, with candlewax; ~ Merry Christmas ~ ; Seed; Seed man; + Good seed catalog; Starry starry night; What a crock <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b>The subject has a small inexpensive (scrap?) wooden likely peasant-made</b><br />
<b>Mexican manger scene </b><b>standing atop a heavy cut-steel andiron </b><br />
<b>modified by the welder </b><b>into a candle holder. </b><br />
<b>Real melted wax is included in the image.</b></div>
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<b>The fireplace cast iron remnant weighs a ton.</b></div>
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<b>But the simple manger scene is as a matchbox comparatively.</b></div>
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<b>Light as a feather.</b><br />
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<b>To us, a proper heavy and weightless theme for this Yule.</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Raccoon Christmas card from friends Tom and Malena Koplin 2009</span></div>
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<b>In a related shape</b><br />
<b>an old faded gourd</b><br />
<b>painted blue as a tree ornament</b><br />
<b>got accidentally cast off at curbside</b><br />
<b>with the drying discard.</b><br />
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<b>It was found by a squirrel</b><br />
<b>and dug into in a curious spiral</b><br />
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<b>until the marauder found its treasure -</b><br />
<b>edible tasty seeds.</b><br />
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<b>Hank <i>White Owl </i>Waschow</b><br />
<b>friend since the 1950s at high School</b><br />
<b>was a Native American aficionado.</b><br />
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<b>b. 1936 d. 2010 </b><br />
<b>my age</b><br />
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<b>We stayed in touch over the years.</b><br />
<b>We had many adventures at WHS</b><br />
<b>including the short-lived <i>Gruvna Club.</i></b><br />
<b><span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;">Readers, see former 1954 classmate Carol Lombardi re that</span></b><br />
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<b>When Dee and I planned to marry, 11-11-83</b><br />
<b>White Owl Hank provided the elements</b><br />
<b>of worship, which were readily adapted</b><br />
<b>by our cleric friend Rev. John Helt UCC.</b><br />
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<b>Helt, recently retired as a pastor has remained</b><br />
<b>our close friend also for years.</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>More on seeds</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Dee got this very worth $19. seed catalog in the mail this week.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">^,^</span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Starry starry night</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>What a crock</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "blackadder itc"; font-size: 24pt;">Diminishing Returns<!--?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns =
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<span style="font-family: "blackadder itc"; font-size: 18pt;">From the
Spring<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<!--?xml:namespace prefix = "st1" ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /--><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: "blackadder itc"; font-size: 18pt;">Waukesha</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: "blackadder itc"; font-size: 18pt;"> Mineral
Water<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "blackadder itc"; font-size: 24pt;">S</span>ixty years ago </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: red;">- 70 YEARS NOW -</span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="color: red;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
I was sent to the Silurian
Spring vestige</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Weekly, to get water
bubbling up from the ground</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Through a plain pipe;
</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
No finialed, turreted
monuments around then,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
No platformed exotic
encirclements </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
No delicate parasols, in the after-days;
</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
But for the history keepers
to thankfully tell us,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
- See below footnote
-</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Gone is the heraldry of
<st1:city>Waukesha</st1:city></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
As the vaunted
<st1:city>Saratoga</st1:city> of the West,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
The intricate and ornate
vaultings,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Carves and turnings</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
The Victorian porticos
</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Resort and spa hostelries</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Drawing Chicagoans, New
Yorkers,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
By railroad </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
To the little
<st1:place><st1:city>Waukesha</st1:city>
<st1:state>Wisconsin</st1:state></st1:place>ās</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Painted depot boards</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
All splintered and
demolished by hasty people</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
In a hurry for advancing
modernity</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Where celebrity and
gossamer</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Once lavishly held forth;</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
After</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Lofty and mystical spring
names</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Like Almanaris, Arcadian,
<st1:city>Bethesda</st1:city>,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Clysmic,
<st1:street>Fountain Crescent</st1:street>, </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Horeb, Hygeia, Mineral Rock,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Orchard, Roxo, Silurian,
Solarian,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
White Rock </div>
<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<br /></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
diminished into
antiquity</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
like the detritus of</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
a briefly upswept vortex,
</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
soiled newspapers and
flyers</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
scattered, blown by a
departed train</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
The hefty claims for the
curative properties</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Of
<st1:city>Waukesha</st1:city> spring water were
de-claimed;</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
No longer did wealthy
foreigners </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Disembark at the town train
depots for </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Halcyon days of taking the
cures</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
In charming, unlike
anywhere else</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<st1:city>Waukesha</st1:city>
surroundings;</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
It was indeed something
different to come here</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Even sometimes sitting in
big tubs</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Having also poison-sucking
<st1:city>Waukesha</st1:city> mud</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
(Yes, even our mud)</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
packed to their chins by freshly-clad nurse
attendants</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
while
sipping the mystical, magical</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
And ever-tendered</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<st1:city>Waukesha</st1:city>
Water</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Bearing labels of
be-gauzied winged nymphs;</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Those were days of
caveat-emptor in </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Reckless, truth-stretching
advertising;</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Claims were made without
legal constraint</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Allowing the water
entrepreneurs,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
The stockholders </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
To boast, to fable, to
inscribe</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
On enthralling and storied
bottle labels</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Of</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Downright cures for
diabetes, Brightās disease,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Gravel, dyspepsia,
rheumatism, jaundice,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Indigestion, costiveness,
dysentery, </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Chills, and nervous and
sick headaches.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Those cures were just at
nearby </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Inscrutably-boweled
Silurian Spring;</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Elsewhere in
<st1:city>Waukesha</st1:city> you could get</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
other systemic-trickling,
enigmatic spring waters</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
offering remedial panaceas
for gout, dropsy,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
water sure to be
diaphoretic, anti-emetic,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
even thirst allaying
(!)</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
and a lessening of nausea
and gastric distress,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Not to mention a cure for
all liver and kidney diseases.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
I would come home those 60
years ago </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Pulling a coaster wagon of
filled variously improvised</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Water holders </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
From the constantly running
pipe</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
of the Silurian
Spring,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "blackadder itc"; font-size: 24pt;">A </span> plain pipe then in an inglorious recessed,
concreted</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Uncelebrated stair well</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
of about 6 feet deep in the
Silurian park</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Located</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
To the immediate east of
the Soo Line</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
railroad depot</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
The pipe now cemented
over</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
I would tug my Zep wagon up
the slow incline of Silurian park</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
ā now called
ā<st1:city>Waukesha</st1:city> Springsā but in name only
ā</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
across Hartwell,one block
down Beechwood</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
and one block to our corner
at Arcadian</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
and
<st1:street>Colton street</st1:street></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
There my job was to take
the storage</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Containers down into our cool basement</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
And refill our table-worthy </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
National Brotherhood of
Potters brand</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Ice-box water jug, with the All-seeing
Eye</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Trademark on the bottom,
the sprays of Oriental Poppies</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Painted in the glazed tan
background on the two broad sides</div>
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<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Oh,</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
It was and it still is a
lovely crock, </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
A yawning hollow to hold
and hallow</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
A curved yet overall
rectangular shape that </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Allowed for cozy nesting
among </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Other ice-cooled
perishables.</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Weād put it right up
against the melting ice</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
To insure a shockingly cold
drink</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Now the ice box morphed
into an electric refrigerator, and
</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
It may contain cans of
superfluous diet soda</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
and fruit juices</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
But, stay, for the
plainest, most rewarding</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Truly thirst-quenching
drink</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Iāll have some deep gulps
of still crystalline </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<st1:city>Waukesha</st1:city>
tap water</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Anytime</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Now direct from of the sink
faucet</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
But still held in</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
The chilly crock;</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
The squeaky cork-lined lid
</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Still making the heavy clay
clunk </div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
Of ceramic meeting ceramic
when seated</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
As it always did</div>
<div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">
<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10pt;">[David Dix </span><st1:date day="19" month="3" year="2007"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">3-19-07</span></st1:date><span style="font-size: 10pt;">]</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>This is the first pick-up truck I've known.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>It was constructed by my now deceased father and uncles</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>I own it today. It travels with me.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>It is made of a Gilbert Erector set kit out of wheels, nuts, bolts,</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Its chipped colored metal and some accumulated dust</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>portray for me the shadows of gleeful four brothers, all to serve</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>later in WW II, playing together in the semi-dark gables</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Here, later Dixes gather at the old homestead, long sold, decorated</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>that we raised and lowered daily during the war as family patriots is still there.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Chris Dix, grandson, married to Katie</b></span> <span style="font-size: large;"><b>Gardalapee</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">It was an old fashioned Thanksgiving family gathering this year</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">The gaiety, merriment, flowing happinesses of laughter and simmering</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">after library archives closing from an attorney</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">asking Erin the Archivist if she could help</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">her one eye catching the </span><span style="font-size: x-small;">headlights of an approaching auto</span></div>
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<tr><td class="sp_text_description" style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: 1.6em; padding-bottom: 5px;">She rises up above the strapless, her dewy<br />
flesh like a soul half out of a body.<br />
It makes me remember her one week old,<br />
soft, elegant, startled, alone.<br />
She stands still, as if, if she moved,<br />
her body might pour up out of the bodice,<br />
she keeps her steady gaze raised<br />
when she walks, she looks exactly forward,<br />
led by some radar of the strapless, or with<br />
a cup runneth over held perfectly level, her<br />
almost sea-sick beauty shimmering<br />
a little. She looks brave, shoulders<br />
made of some extra-visible element,<br />
or as if some of her cells, tonight,<br />
were faceted like a fly's eye, and her<br />
skin was seeing us see it. She looks<br />
hatched this moment, and yet wearyāshe would lie<br />
in her crib, so slight, looking worn out from her journey,<br />
and gaze at the world and at us in dubious willingness.<br />
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āFirst Formalā by Sharon Olds from <em>The Wellspring</em>. Ā© Knopf, 1996</div>
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Gender Studies <br />
by <a href="http://writersalmanac.org/poem_author/michael-blumenthal/?elq=e18ee3e71f5d4b9a8d3a82d55ed9b4bd&elqCampaignId=13344&elqaid=15723&elqat=1&elqTrackId=28799065ae794a63a57d29815689b1c5">Michael Blumenthal </a><br />
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A cricket chirps in the grass.<br />
Another cricket, all ears,<br />
joins him. Now there are two.<br />
Up above, birds shriek<br />
like drunken gods, the air<br />
is atizzy with the melodrama<br />
of what is about to be.<br />
The two crickets<br />
eye each other<br />
out of the corner<br />
of their cricket eyes.<br />
Each desires something<br />
the other has, each<br />
abhors its own desire.<br />
After a brief silence,<br />
there will be little<br />
cricket mating, a little<br />
cricket love. Soon,<br />
the air will be abuzz<br />
with the sounds<br />
of heavy cricket breathing,<br />
legs rubbing together,<br />
the sound of war in the air<br />
in crickatese,<br />
a subject for specialists.<br />
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"Gender Studies" by Michael C. Blumenthal.<br />
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Review:<br />
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In 1998 the pre-SRN writer ran a series <br />
called 'Zepata's Adventures'<br />
Synthesizing the famed name<br />
of Mexican Robin Hood-style outlaw <br />
ZAPATA<br />
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SEE <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiliano_Zapata">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emiliano_Zapata</a><br />
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Today's Writers Almanac poem<br />
about crickets (above)<br />
reminded us of our prior work<br />
on the subject:<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Zepata and the creekets</b></span><br />
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Instalment 6<br />
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The expected storm arrives<br />
Just before dawn<br />
Zepata and Irena<br />
Pull the tarp down upon them<br />
It was either that or have it blown away<br />
So high were the winds<br />
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The red-bandana clad creekets<br />
had long ago retired to<br />
their stow-away saddle bag<br />
and if their legs had been<br />
fine instruments<br />
which in a way they were<br />
the creekets would have put<br />
them away<br />
in velvet-lined music cases;<br />
as it was, to the little mariachi band,<br />
they just blew them off<br />
like smoke from fired<br />
pistols<br />
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This weather pattern was a frik<br />
Zepata say to Irena<br />
He nevair see one like<br />
Cyclonic winds seem to blow<br />
Around and around the mountain<br />
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A stream-rinsed red union suit<br />
Hanging on a makeshift line blew off<br />
Only to return fifteen minutes later<br />
From the opposite direction<br />
It had traveled around the mountain<br />
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Daylight slowly comes<br />
But the rain and crying wind does not let up<br />
El Dayo appears at their active<br />
Bundle of tarp and he sounds<br />
His battle call<br />
Zepata and Irena look out from inside<br />
Their waterproof canvas<br />
Cocoon of rest and love<br />
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Raising himself again and again<br />
On his powerful hind legs<br />
Dayo gives a primeval battle cry<br />
At the sky, daring it to strike<br />
Him with lightning<br />
His bulging eyes blazing<br />
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Zeus himself might refrain<br />
From hurling a bolt at such a<br />
Dreadnaught<br />
For fear El Dayo would perhaps<br />
catch it<br />
In his frothing gaping mouth<br />
And hurl it back<br />
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Zepata calls out to the drenched<br />
Beast:<br />
Issy Boy issy<br />
Go get Mare<br />
We liff in half an hour<br />
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Soon Dayo and Mare<br />
stand waiting<br />
And the terrible storm<br />
Relents<br />
Zepata checks the dynamite<br />
Eet is try he proclaims<br />
And with Irena breaks camp<br />
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Vowing never to forget that storm<br />
And the jump-started Mexican saviour<br />
Ponders its portent<br />
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Now mud is their greatest danger<br />
It is too risky to ride<br />
So Zepata and Irena walk<br />
Beside their mounts<br />
All morning they descend<br />
In this way<br />
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In the early afternoon<br />
They discover that the storm<br />
Did not happen at the lower<br />
Altitude<br />
It had been a mountaintop<br />
Electric cyclone only<br />
Like nobody ever saw before<br />
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Zepata thinks it must<br />
Have been a sight to see<br />
From down below<br />
And indeed the compadres<br />
Had looked up from their campsite<br />
And thought of Zepata and Irena<br />
And offered prayers<br />
for their safekeeping<br />
<br />
The waters that had rushed<br />
Down the mountain<br />
Were torrential<br />
And the air had taken on<br />
A charged crispness<br />
Following the high winds<br />
That had swirled through<br />
The compadres' tentative<br />
repose<br />
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Zepata who was a simple Indian<br />
with cause and effect<br />
thought patterns at root<br />
Divined the storm had been<br />
Stirred by the pro-creative<br />
Madness<br />
Exhibited by humans and horses<br />
In the night<br />
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After all, he mused<br />
If a little Zepata or Irena<br />
Was being conceived<br />
Or a foal to match or even<br />
Exceed Dayo and Mare's<br />
Powerful exhuberances<br />
Should it not storm?<br />
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These were all natural things<br />
To the mind of Zepata<br />
For himself he knew<br />
That the inflammations<br />
Stirred by Irena<br />
and her surfeit of oil<br />
Produced energy that not even<br />
He, ZEPATA, could fully combust<br />
Try as he might<br />
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He thought as he watched<br />
Her riding ahead of him:<br />
Here was an exciting fuel<br />
That could never be burned<br />
Completely<br />
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Irena possessed a life force<br />
That commenced as female<br />
Gateway of life physiology<br />
That which every woman has<br />
But in Irena's instance<br />
A bellows of only guessed-at origin<br />
Had blown her womanly propensities<br />
Into a conflagration whose<br />
Raging flames licked<br />
The highest clouds and<br />
Changed weather patterns<br />
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The Indians knew<br />
The northern lights were caused<br />
By a woman such as this<br />
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In the north, it was said,<br />
there was such a woman<br />
And in other parts<br />
Of the world<br />
Rainmakers, storm-causers<br />
Interacting with mighty men<br />
Their powers are released<br />
This is what Zepata believed<br />
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How could he not believe it<br />
As he watched Irena's<br />
Buttocks ahead of him<br />
Nudging and shunting<br />
The hand-tooled saddle<br />
He had rubbed to smoothness<br />
himself<br />
And presented to his Real Woman<br />
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It must be time for siesta<br />
He mused<br />
Irena felt his eyes upon her<br />
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ROUND REDOUNDS<br />
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Is it a sign of being civilized<br />
To live in spaces that always have an angle<br />
Squares and rectangles<br />
Cornering us in the dust<br />
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When all uncivilized simple creatures<br />
Around the globe<br />
- Under the dome of heaven -<br />
Live in tepees, igloos, round or oval nests<br />
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Without reservation<br />
The choice is automatically made<br />
Make it round;<br />
:"We'll have what nature's having."<br />
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Why our angular fixation then when<br />
Our own preliminarily-cultured children<br />
Given their first crayon will draw<br />
Instinctive curves and ovals<br />
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Nothing in nature is straight<br />
We use our squares, plumbs, transits,<br />
And snapped chalk lines to get it straight<br />
We need straight to build high; but not nature<br />
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Nature is round<br />
Even a squirrel outside my window<br />
Chewed a near-perfect circle enlargement<br />
In a gourd filled with bird-feed<br />
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He'd squeezed through my smaller<br />
Bird-sized hole but it was a tight fit<br />
So while I secretly watched him<br />
He went around my circle all the way<br />
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So I wouldn't notice what he'd done?<br />
He could have hacked a jagged opening<br />
Any shape to gain access to the seed<br />
But he carefully widened my circle<br />
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I think this wasn't really a squirrel squirrel<br />
It was an Indian squirrel<br />
Or an Esquimaux squirrel<br />
A spirit squirrel from another world<br />
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Following an instinctive blueprint<br />
And I sat in my square room<br />
Looking out my square window, amazed;<br />
Roundly amused<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>STRUGGLING WAITRESS</b></span><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">BY CHANTELLE PENCE</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Sent to the Raccoon by daughter Laurie Kari</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><i>Director, family Promise Homeless Shelter, Wasilla AK</i></span></b><br />
<b><span style="color: red; font-size: xx-small;"><i><a href="http://www.familypromisematsu.org/About_us.html" target="_blank">http://www.familypromisematsu.org/About_us.html</a></i></span></b><br />
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<br /><br />She fumbled with her pen and paper when she took our order at the restaurant we had chosen for our special night out. A blank look came over her face, in the midst of our exchange, and she asked us to repeat our meal request. She apologized a couple of times before leaving our table, and I couldn't help but notice what she was wearing as she walked away. Frayed black athletic pants stretched over her thin frame. We were at a place that was reputed to have good steaks, but the service had me questioning our choice to eat there.<br /><br /><br /><div class="wrapper clearfix full pb-feature pb-layout-item pb-f-global-sharebar-v2" id="f0bjXTUdUwMyzq" style="box-sizing: border-box; clear: both; margin: 0px;">
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I joked to my husband that she might be on drugs, but was not really kidding. We agreed that there was something "off" about her. I observed her while she struggled to tend to a table with a large party of people, all asking different things of her. She walked swiftly back to the kitchen, to retrieve a forgotten item, and then returned to our table to bring our drinks, somewhat sloppily. I felt uneasy.<br />
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I breathed deeply and thought about my options. We could leave, as it seemed the evening was off to a bad start. Or we could stay and look for good things to see. I asked my partner to play a game with me. "Let's try to find something to appreciate about her," I said. So we did.<br />
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"She has good posture!" "She is trying really hard." "She gave a genuine response when I asked her opinion about a dish." We sat back in our chairs, each of us reaching for more good things to notice about our waitress, and the establishment. She returned with our appetizer and I caught her eyes. They were clear, to my surprise. We ate our small plate, enjoying the food and each other's company.<br />
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When the waitress brought our main course, I expressed my delight about how good it looked. She kept apologizing for her awkwardness. "No worries!" I said. "It's OK, this is great!" my husband offered. She walked away and we continued to find the good while we ate. His steak with blue cheese sauce was incredible. My chicken fettuccine was tasty and not too heavy. The conversation was light, easy and loving. A perfect date.<br />
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Our waitress moved about, tending to her tasks. Midway through our meal she came over and began sharing with us. She had a young daughter and was working hard to provide for her. She told us how, two years ago, she was addicted to heroin. She was still climbing out of the hellhole she had been living in. "Look at you now!" I exclaimed. "Your eyes are so bright." "You're doing awesome," my husband said. She left again to go back to the kitchen.<br />
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At the end of our meal, she came back to visit. "I love it when couples like you come in. I've been enjoying listening to your conversation. This is what I want," she said, waving her hand between the two of us. "A love like this. ā¦" She had shared some of her story, so we shared some of ours.<br />
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"What you see now is not how it's always been. We were not always like this." We, also, had a difficult past. Not the same, exactly, but ours was not always a life of pleasure or prosperity. There were bouts of pain and poverty in our individual and shared histories. We had each experienced the shame of being looked down on by people on high. Though we didn't use those words, exactly, our different experiences on the rough side of life gave us some insight, and compassion, for her plight. We talked a little bit about self-care and healing, and how our relationship as a couple is only good when we care for ourselves individually. The path to wellness takes work; it is not always easy. She said that her daughter's father is in recovery, and she knows that she has to look after her own well-being, and her baby, as a priority.<br />
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It was an evening to remember. I always enjoy our date nights. Sometimes they are light and happy, fun and playful. This one was warm, caring and humbling in all the right ways. It reminded me that we never serve another, or ourselves, by focusing on flaws. There is more than meets the eye in situations that, at first glance, appear ugly. One of my favorite quotes, by Gary Zukav, says: "Let us not run from the unattractiveness of a shattered soul, let us heal them." When we look for the best in another, we help draw it to the surface. A person who is a mess one minute can become poised and present under the gaze of someone looking for it.<br />
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We left the restaurant with happy bellies and a peaceful feeling. The waitress gave the gift of her time, effort and story, and allowed us the opportunity to experience the power of influence, and how easily we can help or hurt another just by how we see them. I am thankful I made the choice to find the best in her. It took very little effort, and it opened the door for a rich experience that benefited each of us ā the waitress, my husband and me. We left a big tip.<br />
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Chantelle Pence is the author of "Homestead Girl: The View From Here." She divides her time between Anchorage and Chistochina.<br />
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<span style="color: white; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: black;"><b>- leading Waukesha businessman -</b></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b>At Angels Grace Hospice, Oconomowoc, WI</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">This editor spent two weeks at the runway terminal</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">in October of 2017, as though just prior hacking impassably</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> through </span></b></span></span><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">a dense jungle with a dull machette.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">At last, exhausted, tight vines</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">twisting all around him holding him down,</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">a vast runway clear of all impediments appeared</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">before him stretching to a far blue-skied horizon.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">He taxied onto this glorious airstrip</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">ready for take-off at last but</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">he could not pull the engine throttle back.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">It was not time for departure.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">This flight was cancelled.</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">This was just a dream that could not spoil his take on </span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">the facility. Situated on a peninsula with a small lake</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">called simply <i>The Pond </i>on three sides, in a wilderness setting,</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">with sandhill cranes making a seasonal encampment in</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">their migratory pattern, roaming the grounds searching for grubs </span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">or sheering tender greens sprouting from rained-upon birdseed</span></b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">beneath the many birdfeeders on hospice patients'</span></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">On October 28th 2017</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">He is back from a knock-out series of punches. Close.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">He is shown here after entering his premises to find</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">she made from Ela Orchard, Rochester WI; unpasteurized apple</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">cider grown and pressed at the orchard and a large Macoun apple</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">(more in a bag) set before him in a loving way.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Ela is a third generation business tended by son-in-law</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Ben Willard's family. Dee drove the half-hour south drive to Rochester</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">a hospitalization in Waukesha for failing heart and kidneys</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">in October I spent 6 days there until being transferred to</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">That was most likely to be his final act, and what lovely</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">He inagined hacking fruitlessly through thick jungle</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">Instead, after his meds were cut off nearly entirely he began</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">a 13 day recovery in the hidden paradise where he at first imagined</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">he was in a farmhouse where he could hear cows being milked</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">in the morning and the freshest cold water being drawn from </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">a well outside his bedsite range.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Paul Kortes, Corpus Christi, Texas</span><br />
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turned 30 on 9/9/17</div>
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in his present hometown of HOUSTON</div>
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amidst puddles in a park, with limited </div>
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Call me a Debbie Downer, but<br />
as I hear that phrase and consider<br />
what is happening in the United states,<br />
I think of things other than the sun and the moon.<br />
I see a darkness spreading across our nation<br />
that has nothing to do with<br />
intersecting solar pathways.<br />
Oozing across the landscape of the country<br />
this darkness is a black plague,<br />
a disease of anger and hatred eclipsing<br />
decency and respect.<br />
The infection has been here before,<br />
but the recent outbreak is caused<br />
by a vector squatting<br />
in the highest office of this nation.<br />
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Being In the path of totality<br />
brings to my mind many<br />
different images, most of which<br />
are directly connected to the toxic toad,<br />
that frog-prince pretender<br />
illegally occupying the White House.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif;">As the shadow of evil spreads </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif;">across the face of our nation </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif;">the darkness seems intent upon </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif;">blotting out the light of freedom </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif;">and hope which have made our country</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif;"> a beacon for the world. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif;">I cling to the knowledge that even </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif;">at its most total coverage, those of us</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif;"> in the path of totality will see that,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif;"> while the world grows dark, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif;">a corona of light persists, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif;">encircling the shadow, surrounding </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "merriweather" , "georgia" , serif;">the darkness with a glow of hope.</span><br />
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That light, reflected<br />
in the eyes of the people who stand up<br />
for the rights of others,<br />
reassures me that light will<br />
not be extinguished;<br />
it may fall into shadow,<br />
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Yet our King Lear charade<br />
continues as he gives away the nation<br />
to those who flatter him most. In his madness,<br />
pride and ego drive him to ever more<br />
dangerous positions, putting the entire world<br />
in danger of being in<br />
a different path of totality.<br />
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Total destruction.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 21px; padding-bottom: 50px;"><strong>Candlelight</strong></span>
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by <a data-author="876" href="http://writersalmanac.org/poem_author/tony-hoagland/?utm_campaign=TWA%20Newsletter%20for%20August%206%2C%202017&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&utm_content=The%20Writer%27s%20Almanac%20for%20August%206%2C%202017&elqTrackId=26dc7e46560b43ba8bcef2258be7bf75&elq=cac441b572134d02a68dfe3f836e8af4&elqaid=29977&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=26418" title="blocked::http://writersalmanac.org/poem_author/tony-hoagland/?utm_campaign=TWA Newsletter for August 6, 2017&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&utm_content=The Writer's Almanac for August 6, 2017&elqTrackId=26dc7e46560b43ba8bcef2258be7bf75&elq=cac441b572134d02a68dfe3f836e8af4&elqaid=29977&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=26418">Tony Hoagland </a></div>
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Crossing the porch in the hazy dusk</div>
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to worship the moon rising</div>
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like a
yellow filling-station sign</div>
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on the black horizon,</div>
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you feel the faint grit</div>
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of ants beneath your shoes,</div>
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but keep on
walking</div>
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because in this world</div>
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you have to decide what</div>
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youāre willing to kill.</div>
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Saving your marriage
might mean</div>
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dinner for two</div>
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by candlelight on steak</div>
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raised on pasture</div>
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chopped out of rain
forest</div>
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whose absence might mean</div>
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an atmospheric thinness</div>
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fifty years from now</div>
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above the vulnerable
head</div>
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of your bald grandson on vacation</div>
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as the cells of his scalp</div>
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sautƩed by solar radiation</div>
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break down like
suspects</div>
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under questioning.</div>
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Still you slice</div>
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the sirloin into pieces</div>
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and feed each other</div>
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on
silver forks</div>
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under the approving gaze</div>
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of a waiter</div>
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whose purchased attention</div>
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and
French name</div>
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are a kind of candlelight themselves,</div>
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while in the background</div>
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the
fingertips of the pianist</div>
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float over the tusks</div>
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of the slaughtered elephant</div>
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without a care,</div>
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as if the elephant</div>
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had
granted its permission.</div>
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"Candlelight" by Tony Hoagland from <em>Donkey
Gospel</em>. Ā© Graywolf Press, 1998</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>^,^</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "blackadder itc"; font-size: 22.0pt;">Mosquito Aid Ode<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana";"> </span><span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Hereās a toast I want to give<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">To a dear friend<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Calamine lotion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">For mosquito bites and hornet stings<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Folks think youāre just the potion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Your fame has spread <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Just like a rash<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">From here to the great land<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Goshen</st1:city></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">To poo-poo your <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">over-the counter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Power<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Let no one take a<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Notion<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">We swab you <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">On the part of us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Thatās harmed by sting or bright sun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Then lay back and feel your chalky
pink<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Commence the soothing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">function<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">How could we make it through<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">The summer<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Without your balm<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">that someone<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Way back when thought up for us<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">The extremist<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Of all itching unction<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">So lift those glasses, yes<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Lift them high<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">To Calamine you deserve rank <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">So thronely<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">We would in fact quaff a pink <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">Drink to you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">If you werenāt for<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face";">External Use Only<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "blackadder itc"; font-size: 24.0pt;">Collection of One<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">The red veined thing I hold as in my hand</span><span style="font-family: "blackadder itc"; font-size: 24.0pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Was hard to
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">involving snags
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">seasons of taking
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">It brittled, turned in color, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> too soon to be approaching
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">It may be dying, but I am only 80.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Now, I see this single one<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">in a proper perspective<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> as only one in
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">But itās <i>my</i>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Standing out from all the others<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> I ponder it,
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">So radiant still,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">beating all, beating<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">even at a pulse of only 2 pixtels<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;"> itās clear enough for me<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">to win a contest if I could get to it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">I do hold it<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">the nurses and doctors</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">It reminds me of a fallen leaf<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">So fragile<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Iād press it, if I had a big enough book <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">of gentle poetry <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">Ye shall find it still<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">A small but once mighty engine.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 10.0pt;">A leaf, a fire, my heart.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 8.0pt;">[David Dix, 2005]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Adventurer, with his KM buddies an Extreme Man,</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b> Grandson Michael Dix</b></span><br />
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<b>Mike practices ski-board flip</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>What's happening now</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>climbing in Utah where he lives</b></span><br />
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<b>With his brother Chris Dix</b></div>
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<b>Mike and his mom</b></div>
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<b>a very patient mother</b></div>
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<b>Sue Peters-Dix</b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[Her father, mike's other grandpa, was Berlin WI's CRAZY RALPH</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">so Mike is multi-endowed with zane]</span></b></div>
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<b>At brother Chris's Carroll graduation</b><br />
<b>with mom, dad and sister, Melissa</b><br />
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<b>On family vacation in Colorado</b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Uncle Dick, David Jr., Mike, Chris</span></b><br />
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<b>Mike and his Uncle Lee Dix</b></div>
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<b><br /></b><b>For sure he'll be with <i>Us </i></b><b><i>and Them:</i></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">the Dixes and his buds</span></b></div>
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<b>Note card to Alaska Kari's sent 8-12-17</b><br />
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ZEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791124896859602554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745758337327899564.post-44829277953135991242017-08-05T05:22:00.000-07:002017-08-05T05:22:33.192-07:00Old friend visits Odd Fellow; I wants to get an Airstream; Album; All that we have is now<div style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: red;">A</span><span style="background-color: white;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: large;">Druid, clair-voyageur, seer</span></b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>trekked under the blue awning</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b> waterfall overhanging the Odd Fellow hall entrance</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>to call on an old friend Wednesday.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>This time he brought another gift</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>beside a half-head of cabbage</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>from his wife's garden</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>which was later that very day partaken of</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>and enjoyed. </b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b><i>His</i> own offering was a vial ~ or phial ~</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>his own formula of an essential oil</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>he uses prior to putting himself down nightly for bed.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>A method he uses to zone-out and put</b></span><br />
<b style="font-size: large;">the days care's and business behind him.</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>A restful mode overcomes him and he then sleeps</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: medium;"><b>soundly.</b></span><br />
<b>His host did not inquire why he had brought</b><br />
<b>this gift.</b><br />
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<b>Conversation flowed unhindered by </b><br />
<b>any solicitations of prayer</b><br />
<b>yet some divining hand seemed involved</b><br />
<b>in the spoken zig-zag.</b><br />
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<b>Other gifts have issued from Mystic Mike.</b><br />
<b>He brought an Escher cardstock solid</b><br />
<b>to his friend when he was laid-up.</b><br />
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<b>It rests at the top of a basket of get-well cards.</b><br />
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<b>Seen at a dessert table is</b><br />
<b>the Druid's wife Bev.</b><br />
<b>She too is kindly, sharing, for example, batches</b><br />
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: 16.9px;">This article appeared in a forerunner of </span><em style="color: #ff6600; font-size: 16.9px;">The Sewer Raccoon News, </em><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: 16.9px;">a pioneering effort of this editor using a mimeo machine - remember them? - a periodical called </span><em style="color: #ff6600; font-size: 16.9px;">Vulcan Weathervanes. </em><span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: 16.9px;">It was called that because in 1981 when this article ran, yours truly was playing with</span><strong style="color: #ff6600; font-size: 16.9px;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: 30.42px;"> F-I-R-E<span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: 39.546px;">.</span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: 16.9px;">Until shortly before his untimely death at age 52- of a heart attack - John was an art professor at Carroll College. He inspired me. I learned to weld because of him, and I learned to let my sculptures and other metal products rust because of his own rusty work. One day we took one of his large rusting steel mobiles and hung it in a tree at his farm and punctured multiple holes in it with a .22 caliber rifle.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: 16.9px;">At the Milwaukee Lake Front annual art festival he was juried permission to show, and he took ONE (1) pot, what he considered his best. He set it on the hood of his rusty pick-up. All the other artists had their customary partitions and tables loaded with saleable merchandise, but John Tyson took only his best effort, and sat in his folding chair next to the truck.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ff6600; font-size: 16.9px;">When drinking Harvey's Bristol Cream once in my living room, he accidentally spilled a little. A smigeon. Calling him on it scoldingly, he looked at me and took his glass and emptied it on the carpet, totally. We exchanged a long direct gaze, and then nearly ruptured our spleens with laugher. Over time, but too little, John Tyson taught me a lot.</span></div>
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<b>The above ceramic dish molded in John's hands</b><br />
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ZEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791124896859602554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745758337327899564.post-41944915592001104612017-07-22T04:11:00.000-07:002017-07-22T07:59:43.938-07:00Stars fell on (Alabama) Bayview WI; Three Bros beef burek from Lee and Zoe; Caring electric scooter rider; Lead therapist; Malaguena <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>...what an experience </b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>a trip to The Three Brothers</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>...until Leland took her</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>(Zoe Middleton) </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>- a world traveler -</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>to our favorite ethnic eatery</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>Leland. steeped in appreciation for the Starry-Nighted restaurant</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>now in his own right, wanted to show his girlfriend a special time</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>They brought us back a beef burek which we (Dee) correctly</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>My memories of the establishment and its fare came flooding back</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>as the crispy philo-doughed offering met my palette.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>recently zeroing in on a piece of trash paper with her grabber tool</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Our lead therapist at Linden Grove rehab, </b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>who with her therapy cohorts there took us from simplicities like using a grabber in our wheel chair </b></span><b style="font-size: x-large;">to, in the end, walking out of the place. </b><b><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Temporarily on a walker. Broken hip is mended.</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>Tammy (lnu), Occ. Therapist, Linden Grove Communities, Mukwonago WI</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>Kindness radiates. Photo from a found public Linden Grove brochure.</b></span></div>
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and to finish this post ~<br />
catching the flavor of the regional origins of the Serbian 3 Bros<br />
who had this number on their juke box<br />
years ago, ZORBA THE GREEK<br />
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The rod must heal the sin: but
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Be merciful to me, a fool! </div>
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That did his will; but Thou, O
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The King, and sought his gardens
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"Be merciful to me, a
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And on those hot afternoons in July,<br />
when my father was out on the
tractor<br />
cultivating rows of corn, my mother<br />
would send us out with a Mason
jar<br />
filled with ice and water, a dish towel<br />
wrapped around it for
insulation.<br />
Like a rocket launched to an orbiting<br />
planet, we would cut across the
fields<br />
in a trajectory calculated to interceptā<br />
or, perhaps, evenāsurprise
him<br />
in his absorption with the row and the<br />
turning always over earth
beneath the blade.<br />
He would look up and see us, throttle<br />
down, stop, and step from the
tractor<br />
with the grace of a cowboy dismounting<br />
his horse, and receive
gratefully the jar<br />
of water, ice cubes now melted into tiny<br />
shards,
drinking it down in a single gulp,<br />
while we watched, mission
accomplished.<br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>Son Leland becomes Yibawean 7-3-16</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b> Ivete Sangalo</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Alejandro Sanz</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Brazilian</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><br /><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>Lee, when a college Portuguese student, put us onto this exciting music of Ivete</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>Sangalo. Sanz in a duo is great too.</b></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>(Sahn-gah'-low; Sahnz)</b></span></span>
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By the time I was six months old, she knew something<br />
was wrong with me. I
got looks on my face<br />
she had not seen on any child<br />
in the family, or the
extended family,<br />
or the neighborhood. My mother took me in<br />
to the
pediatrician with the kind hands,<br />
a doctor with a name like a suit size for a
wheel:<br />
Hub Long. My mom did not tell him<br />
what she thought in truth, that I
was Possessed.<br />
It was just these strange looks on my faceā<br />
he held me, and
conversed with me<br />
chatting as one does with a baby, and my mother<br />
said,
Sheās doing it now! Look!<br />
Sheās doing it now! and the doctor said,<br />
What
your daughter has<br />
is called a sense<br />
of humor. Ohhh, she said, and took
me<br />
back to the house where that sense would be tested<br />
and found to be
incurable.<br />
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"Diagnosis" by Sharon Olds from <em>One Secret Thing</em>. Ā©
Knop 2009<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>^,^</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>We recently celebrated</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>the fourth of July here in Waukesha.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>We have a mayor named Shawn Reilly who is coming up on the end</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>of his four year term, his first. I find him self-effacing and modest,</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>a good young man with years of lawyer experience including his long stint</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>with the downtown Business Improvement District, a post that had Reilly</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>battling encrusted forces, he in the interests of bettering downtown conditions</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>for commerce and residential.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>Reilly has proven himself on the fields of city battle.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>That's why is was so singular that His Honor chose to his parade ride</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>in a black chariot convertible at the lead of the community co-mingled legions,</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>looking for all the world to us like a Caesar coming home from victory</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>on Rome's Appian Way.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>Our vantage for Waukesha's parades has been for the last seven years</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>our residence on the top floor of the Putney Odd Fellows hall, giving us</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>a coveted angle from which to take our photos.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>LOOK!</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>Here comes Mayor Reilly now:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>It was not hard to put this construction on his grand entrance:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>THE PINES OF ROME came to mind, Respighi's masterpiece including</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>the throbbing beats of the symphony in movement No. IV, <i>The Appian Way.</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>Parades of victory - and once in a while defeat - saw the bruised Roman soldiers</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>traveling proudly home via the ancient stone roadway.</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>Fighters all - for what they saw by their lights was right.</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>Listen to the music:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMeXzqTfNcY" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMeXzqTfNcY</a></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>Another Reillian effect in his work as leader of the Waukesha various armies</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;"><b>has been the humbler performance of foot soldier duties as a volunteer:</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Downtown clean-up day</span><br />
<span style="font-size: xx-small;">new broom sweeps clean</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: x-large;">For the complete Respighi version which
includes a<span class="m_-4898103496014118307616013221-06072017"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span>standing ovation<span class="m_-4898103496014118307581422621-06072017"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span>play this:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "courier new"; font-size: x-large;">Move the time bar to 14 minutes
to get<span class="m_-4898103496014118307490314721-06072017"><span style="color: blue;"> </span></span>the full Appian Way effect of this complete
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>^,^</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>History of the Appian Way</b></span><br />
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ZEPhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17791124896859602554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7745758337327899564.post-87281861757078361732017-07-01T04:52:00.000-07:002017-07-01T04:52:13.152-07:00Plentitude; Raccoons; Ray Bethell kite flying; Want fries with that?; New eclipse postage <br />
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<span style="font-size: 21px; padding-bottom: 50px;"><strong>Plentitude</strong></span>
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by <a data-author="926" href="http://writersalmanac.org/poem_author/ann-iverson/?utm_campaign=TWA%20Newsletter%20for%20June%2026%2C%202017&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&utm_content=The%20Writer%27s%20Almanac%20for%20June%2026%2C%202017&elqTrackId=b8af432b2fff45d1857285a5a96c55ab&elq=1a6e03ed1aa24c2c94c26e0d11988554&elqaid=29404&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=25893" title="blocked::http://writersalmanac.org/poem_author/ann-iverson/?utm_campaign=TWA Newsletter for June 26, 2017&utm_medium=email&utm_source=Eloqua&utm_content=The Writer's Almanac for June 26, 2017&elqTrackId=b8af432b2fff45d1857285a5a96c55ab&elq=1a6e03ed1aa24c2c94c26e0d11988554&elqaid=29404&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=25893">Ann Iverson </a></div>
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Even near the very end</div>
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the frail cat of many years</div>
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came to sit with
me</div>
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among the glitter of bulb and glow</div>
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tried to the very last to drink
water</div>
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and love her small world</div>
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would not give up on her curious
self.</div>
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And though she staggered ā shriveled and weak</div>
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still she poked her
nose through ribbon and wrap</div>
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and her peace and her sweetness were of
such</div>
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that when I held my ear to her heart</div>
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I could hear the
sea.</div>
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"Plentitude" by Ann Iverson from <em>Mouth of Summer</em>. Ā© Kelsay
Books, 2017</div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">three coon servants
of the blind King Coon</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">living beneath
the city in his improvised</span></div>
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simultaneously emerging</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">from a storm
grate</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">These audacious
coons</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">are gentle burglars</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">serving their liege</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">by gathering items </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">from his regal
shopping lists</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">usually under cover
of darkness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">They rove about
furtively</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">which gives
strength to </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">the belief that
they</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">are possibly
harmful</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Good heavens</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">what's so bad about
their</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">meager wants</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;"> - bits of
broken glass</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and bottle caps?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The king needs
a royal cape</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and what better way
to adorn him</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">than with a
discarded purple velvet</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">drapery sample and
the colorful trash</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">found in our street
gutters?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I say live in
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and be amused, not
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">when they tip-toe
about</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">touching us</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Sometimes, yes,
they go beyond </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">their usual shyness</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">particularly at Halloween</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">when they gently
reach up pantlegs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and frighten
children sufficiently</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">that they drop
their sacks </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">of candy</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Such pickings</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">should not be
denied </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">the masked faux
raiders</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">who do not poke
guns </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">in anyone's back
and say</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Stick-em
UP!"</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Nor are they child molesters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">They come bearing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">explicit shopping
lists</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">from the King:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">maybe a piece of
metal</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">bent just so,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">or a melon, or a
piece</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">of pizza in the
gutter</span> </div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Nothing we're ever
going to miss</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">No breaking and
entering</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">no howls or shrieks</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">these raccoons are
more afraid of us</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">than we are of them</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">except
at HALLOWEEN</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I say we welcome
the raccoons</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">to our
neighborhoods</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Our streets are
much cleaner</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">for their
scavenging</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Just imagine their
King</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">and the cape he
wears</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Money cannot buy
such</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">improvised elegance</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">The King,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">so old he cannot
walk</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">can no longer
negotiate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">the long sewer distances
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">from the throne
room</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">cavern far
below the </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">old downown post
office</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">to the far-flung</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">street-level
residential grates</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">In truth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">he is blind</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">from too many years</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">of being kept in
the dark</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">His crest may
read</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">"Veritas Est
Lux"</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">'Light, let there be
more light'</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">I know the coons
are</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">- foxes,
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lowly</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "baskerville old face"; font-size: 10.0pt;">Underscoring this
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>A Visitation</i> predicted</b></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><b>by charged stained glass reflection on wall</b></span><br />
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<b>On Thursday Ju</b><b>ne 22 we were paid a visit</b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">by old friend from Albany CA , John Guardalabene</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">or as SRN readers are more used to hearing him referred to,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> simply 206.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Meeting in the early 1970s as recruits into the fleet</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">of Boynton Yellow Cabs, Edison St., Milwaukee, we as as incoming trainees</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">we came to know early that there was something about our random intersection</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></b><b><span style="font-size: x-small;">that would have meaning and last.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">And last it has. We have stayed in regular touch with each other, though</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">our lives would take us far apart and in vastly different directions.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">206 went on to making a PBS documentary on the Dolpos tribe</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">in high altitude Tibet near the China border.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">He was taking a job as a cabdriver to raise money for the</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: xx-small;">Barley field, Dolpos, insular high mountain society</span><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Subsequently 206 got a law degree and a master of fine arts.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">He married Toni, shown below trying out a Vulcan Weathervanes</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">cosmic radio of long ago design and fabrication.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">John and Toni were in WI this week to help resolve</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">some family matters and he blocked enough time</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">in a busy schedule to come to South Street - under intense</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">construction obstacles at present - and find his way to our door.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">It had been many years since we laid eyes on each other.</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">I was honored that the Sixian took the time to seek me out,</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">yet somehow not surprised for our deep friendship has survived.</span></b><br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">206 and this former cabdriver were the players in the SRN drama</span></b><br />
<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">of the story of Gertie, the discoverer of the folding dollar bill in the</span></b><br />
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In the 70's I drove a Yellow cab. At that time, my cab number was 202, and my best friend was driving 206. He and I often met for breakfast in a small cafe on East Ogden street. There was a regular customer who frequented the restaurant named Gertie. We never found out much about her, but we thought she was from the neighborhood, maybe from a walk-up apartment above one of the stores lining the block.</div>
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Gertie was chubby, elderly, and always wore non-descript clothes; house dresses, with a cotton apron tied around her. She had a great habit of always checking the pay phone for coins. She did this every time we were in there. 206 and I would see her coming through the plate glass window and know her first move on entering the cafe would be to root around in the coin return slot, for luck. Expressionless. Perfunctory follow-through before taking a stool at the counter.</div>
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One day 206 and I had the idea of sticking a whole dollar bill in the coin slot for Gertie to find. We did it like casting a fat worm into a pond. Having lined the phone with a buck we waited for Gertie. Show she did, and went right over, per her custom, to stick a finger in the phone.</div>
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Gertie wasn't playing with a full deck, and was obviously not well-off. This dollar would be seen by her as a pot of gold bullion at the end of her rainbow, while to us well-off, tip-earning cabdrivers, it was nothing.</div>
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We sat at the counter in our usual places and watched Gertie in the mirror behind the counter as she plumbed the phone. The look on her face I'll never forget, and I know 206 won't, either, because we still reminisce about it.</div>
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We talk on the phone, he from CA and me from WI, often. 206 was driving cab to save money to go back to Nepal to make a documentary film on the Dolpo tribe, a high-altitude Himalayan society then only recently known to the western world. He'd been there scouting, once before. (The film was later shown successfully, on PBS.)</div>
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Gertie immediately struck pay-dirt with the dollar, which she received in this way: Looking furtively left and right over her hovering shoulders, hunching to protect her good fortune, Gertie tried to look regular as she quickly pocketed the dollar in her apron. She had an expression of a cat that swallowed the canary, trying so hard to appear as if nothing had happened out of the ordinary, but she didn't have the face for it.</div>
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206 and I never fessed-up to her, and after exchanging smiles went on eating our bacon and eggs. I think we laced that phone a few more times for Gertie. Those dollars were nothing to us, because we were rich.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><b>After this tale was related in the Raccoon, 206 replied in his customary </b></span><b style="font-size: small;">style, to wit:</b><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">Dear 202,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">In the Prologue of his <i>Zen Mind, Beginnerās Mind </i>Roshi Suzuki writies: āIn the beginnerās mind there are many possibilities, but in the expertās there are few.ā Gertieās gleeful discovery of the dollar you or I placed in the coin return raises the question: there in that restaurant in whose mind were the possibilities the greatest? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">On the road,<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri"; font-size: 11pt;">206<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">206 in his 6-22-17 incarnation below</span></b><br />
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-- Original Message ----- From: John Guardalabene <a href="mailto:vabene@lmi.net" style="background: transparent; color: #669922; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;"><mailto:vabene lmi.net=""></mailto:vabene></a>To: David Dix <a href="mailto:ddix1@wi.rr.com" style="background: transparent; color: #669922; font-weight: bold; text-decoration-line: none;"><mailto:ddix1 wi.rr.com=""></mailto:ddix1></a>Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 11:30 AM Subject: Re: 6, meet Blei</div>
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Thereās a lesson (probably more than one) in our experience with Gertie. Most people in finding paper money rolled up in the coin return of a pay phoneāif there are any such public instruments remainingāwould conclude that the cash was planted and either take it or leave but walk away with a smile.</div>
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Gertie was not limited in this way. The possibilities in life were open-ended to her. While she guarded her find, there was no ironic look on her face. If something good in the form of a coin could come out of a pay phone, why not something better?</div>
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Sometimes I think that intelligence, or what passes for intelligence, is our worst enemy. This can work on both the individual and collective level. Whatās the point of trying this or that if itās inconsistent with our experience and the way we believe the world works.</div>
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We save our energy for the tried and true. Flying outside the flock can result in permanent separation. Even expressing unorthodox opinions can result in very unpleasant consequences, including the loss of oneās life. The Inquisition of the Catholic Church didnāt condemn every victim to death but certainly must have discouraged many from pursuing a life of science.</div>
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The Chinese cultural revolution didnāt prevent China from going capitalist but it ruined many families and ended many lives prematurely and violently.</div>
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My point is that craziness is simply a label and often one that we apply to others because of our own self-interests, inadequacies or shortcomings. Iām not suggesting Gertie was an ignored genius whose brilliance or contributions to society will one day be obvious.</div>
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Iām merely saying that Gertieās ability to accept what we would view as the impossible is something worth reflecting on.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: x-small;">Our discussions this week included of course the downward trajectory of things American symbolized by the Trump presidency. </span></b><b style="font-size: small;">John brought up the Indian Bhagavad Gita and how much of an accurate description of Trump is defined in the Hindu study on Evil vs Good.</b></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>In the 1980s</b></span><br />
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