https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152817627564739&set=vb.310357989738&type=2&theater
^,^
Grace and Alex with cat at the door
http://gerygoneandtwig.bandcamp.com/album/gerygone-twigs-christmas-single
Our grand-
daughter
Grace Kari
First singer on this CD...
that's HER voice...
Plans to marry up with this fine chap
Alex Lindgren
Their quartet band, expatriated from Alaska to Missoula Montana
has been fitting itself up for professionalism
and I think they've now got it
when I listen to Winter Wonderland.
^,^
19th
Installment
the much anticipated Grau year-end letter:
Who are the Graus, some may ask?
John Grau, a Waukesha attorney, was the pro-bona legalist
for the 1st Congregational UCC Burmese refugee project. That's been a while now,
but we are on their Christmas letter list apparently indefinitely.
We're glad of that!
^,^
Re the Burmese;
....
Dee came out the back door
Hla rode working elephants like this formerly, in Burma
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Late 2014-15 pictures
A good one!
A seemingly congenial shot of Reilly and Scrima.
It illustrates an old YIBAWEan premise:
The value of hair
will continue to fall:
Yes I'm Bald, And What Else?
Pompadours
were out, come election day.
(Fez interior label is satin)
There is DRAMA
and there is D-r-a-m-a
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SRN editor wears his DOKK fez
on New Years Day,
parades, and
special occasions
as 1-1-15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramatic_Order_of_the_Knights_of_Khorassan
Happy New Year!
^,^
Our grand-
daughter
Grace Kari
First singer on this CD...
that's HER voice...
Plans to marry up with this fine chap
Alex Lindgren
Their quartet band, expatriated from Alaska to Missoula Montana
has been fitting itself up for professionalism
and I think they've now got it
when I listen to Winter Wonderland.
^,^
19th
Installment
the much anticipated Grau year-end letter:
Who are the Graus, some may ask?
John Grau, a Waukesha attorney, was the pro-bona legalist
for the 1st Congregational UCC Burmese refugee project. That's been a while now,
but we are on their Christmas letter list apparently indefinitely.
We're glad of that!
^,^
Re the Burmese;
....
Hla In The
Trees, Making Sunlight
Our church’s Burmese young father,
refugee from a Thai border camp
Soldier of a freedom army used to
climbing jungle trees as a lookout
- ‘Monkey Boy’ he calls himself self-deprecatingly
-
Balanced and raised a 30 foot extension
ladder by himself with muscular arms
To a high branch of the Honey Locust tree
in the secret garden
Then ascended to that branch and even
higher into the tree
With a sharp Swedish pruning saw over one
arm
He walked the branches with supporting
hands grasping higher branches
Studied the sun above him and applied the
saw to appropriate shading boughs
Sawed them almost clean through and then
when they tipped downward
He finished the cut and guided them to a
pinpoint drop zone away from the flowers
Some of the outer branches brushed the
flowers but they will survive
And already, two days afterward, they are
raising themselves to the sun
Some of the neighbors and my wife express
alarm when Hla does these wing-walks
But he just smiles and bobs his
eyebrows; my function from the ground is
to give the thumbs up or thumbs down when Hla approaches a target limb
And now the tree is thinned and sunlight
beams through onto the garden below
So that next year we can plant not just
shade-loving varieties of perennials
But all manner of things there;
(The Lawnist’s oft-called tree-trimming firm would have had at least
two men and a cherry-picker
To do what Hla happily did at a fraction
of the cost.)
{David Dix 9-15-2002 ]
Me Monkey Boy
Soon to retire new car set-up man
my good neighbor Darrell
was heading back to work on his
motorcycle
when I waved him into my driveway
And lawnist's wife Carol next door
came out
when I called to her through
her dining room screen:
"Look up there," I said to
Carol and Darrell
This was yesterday around one o'clock
Carol looked up and rushed her hand
to her mouth
"Oh, my ---!" she
exclaimed
Darrell on his idling cycle said
"I sure hope you've got good
insurance, Dave!"
He also said, "Man, I could
never do that!
My balance isn't that good!"
That from an old-time
motorcyclist
sitting on his throbbing machine
and looked up on our roof too
and her hands flew involuntarily
to her graying hair, and she
hollered
"HLA!
YOU'RE GOING TO FALL!"
He was lying legs-splayed, head-low
on the edge
of our two and a half story roof
reaching down and under
scraping and painting the overhang
bottom
With no net;
To get up there he used our
fully-extended
extra-long ladder carrying a bucket
of paint
and a stiff putty knife in his
pocket
He laughed skyward like Buddha
at the shocked, sedentary Americans
gathered below,
Then stood up on the edge of
the roof on one foot
raised his arms and said, "
Don't worry!
ME MONKEY BOY !
Davidix (always as one word),
DeeDix (always as one word),
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha,
I Monkey Boy"
[Daid Zep Dix 8-9-2002 ]
Hla rode working elephants like this formerly, in Burma
^,^
from the Raccoon:
Tuesday, July 28, 2009
^,^
Late 2014-15 pictures
A good one!
A seemingly congenial shot of Reilly and Scrima.
It illustrates an old YIBAWEan premise:
The value of hair
will continue to fall:
Yes I'm Bald, And What Else?
Pompadours
were out, come election day.
(Fez interior label is satin)
There is DRAMA
and there is D-r-a-m-a
SRN editor wears his DOKK fez
on New Years Day,
parades, and
special occasions
as 1-1-15
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramatic_Order_of_the_Knights_of_Khorassan
Happy New Year!
