ON JULY 3, 2016
SON LEE INFORMED US THAT HE WANTED TO PRESENT ME
WITH A BELATED FATHER'S DAY GIFT.
IN MY PRESENCE, HE DID THIS WITH A SMILE.
It was just after we got back from Erin and Ben's wedding
in Rochester WI, a day of gladness all around.
Lee wanted his head shaved Yibawean style.
Tired of arranging his remaining follicles just so,
he came to the conclusion that he would throw hair and caution to the winds
and have the family barber, Mother Denise, take the clippers
and razor to his nicely-shaped skull.
The deed was accomplished after applause from his father
for his deciding on his own to take this large step. He requested of me
not to ballyhoo this news about it until Erin's day had been had.
In other words give it a week before putting it in the Raccoon.
This has been honored.
There were plenty of witnesses who smilingly joined Lee
in his act. We know and he is now further-finding-out back in NYC
how freeing up this hair style becomes.
His little kids at his school, Harlem Village Academies,
are in for a big surprise when they first spy their teacher 'Mr. D'.
The witnesses were from far and wide present here at the Odd Fellows hall -
Dee's sister Donna and her husband Jeff; brother John; niece Emily;
Dee's mother 'Gramaw' Jeanie Means;
Dee's mother 'Gramaw' Jeanie Means;
and Lee's girl friend Zoe Middleton who actually took a hand in the operation.
The events were as follows:
Some Yibawean history
The Society was from its inception a rib.
^,^
Re: Yes I'm Bald And What Else
- The truth - :
In the 1970s I was given to listening
to the lectures of Prof. Leo Buscaglia
on public radio.
He was known then as Dr. Love. He died in 1998.
Many insights were gained from Dr. Buscaglia
He is defined in this Wiki link:
:)
and by this lucky example I found:
Buscaglia lectured that it is wrong to pigeon-hole a new acqaintance.
Always look for the And What Else's!
You will find some of the And What Else? in this for sure.
And thus what this YIBAWE thing has been all about.
It is not what you may have thought.
^,^
Leland does his walk in Japan
