The New Year Ahead
An inspiration came from daughter Laurie Dix Kari
from Alaska a few days ago.
It is applicable to where we are now at the threshold
of a new year:
We want to make something new
We are raccoonists at the shore of the Fox River
in our current location
Further evidenced by our custodianship
of a taxidermed fox namaed Festoon
and we do not to absent ourselves from those
no. no. not at all
yet wanting to do something new for 2016
it comes down to viewing our screen here as a fresh pallette
and a site for carrying on and innovating
upon our old stuff
as we go.
So see wny Laurie's video was so perfect for right now:
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Emerson Helt, grandson of our friends the Helts
views the prospects of a new year, a very fresh one for him,
in the manner of his grandfather John
who reads the news
thoughtfully
his dog Sweet Pea
looks on, suggesting the years-earlier RCA Victor logo:
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Closing this issue of SRN early,
the wind-up inspiration of our Grandmother's button box
on a shelf behind me always at the ready
says "PRESENT!"
This button box was played with
by me as a kid, and four children after me,
the last two, Erin and Lee, deigned to scratch
their initials in the lid - E.L.D. -
STAY TUNED
As adults, thest two sit below me playing board games as I type.
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