and
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=hN8CKwdosjE
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
TIMELESS HOMILETICS DEP ' T
Dr. Leo Buscaglia's father used to ask him,at the family supper table.
"And, Leo, what did you learn today?"
Here's what I learned
today:
Writer Norb Blei, Ellison Bay WI............
On Leo Buscaglia
Monday, July 5, 2010
News from Houston
LEE UPDATES HIS BLOG TODAY
Examines 'Showy Yellow Lady Slipper'at The Ridges Sanctuary, Baileys Harbor, WI
(orchid is a boreal forest denizen)
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Friday, July 2, 2010
Small girl runs 5 Point enterprise
A 50th anniversary Coca cola advertising postergraces the retro-fit Sloppy Joe's in downtown Waukesha.
It caught our eye when dining there last evening, for we were sitting at an ice cream
parlor table right next to it.
1936
was the year of our birth.
We had the house specialty, Sloppy Joes, served over-the-counter to us by Shelly who with her parents owns the establishment. A very very friendly place where the juke box wafts 1950's-era music, and hula hoops get spun by young and old, inside or outside on the sidewalk cafe pavement.
A daring and obviously intelligent man of about 60 smiled and gave a hoop a whirl (inside) to see if he could still do it, as he said. We didn't have the camera. His gray neatly-combed pony-tail was swept off the rear of his semi-bald head.
Some other interesting customers were seen, doubtlessly downtown denizens......
Thursday, July 1, 2010
It lives!
When wesought refuge from a storm
we carried our houseplants
to the loft
on the third floor of the Putney
but in a struggle to maintain
wholeness of the 25 year old
'immoveable' cactus,
going through the outer lobby door
a major branch of
the ancient being
was caught and severed.
Crestfallen,
we gathered up the heavy piece
and toted it up three floors in the elevator
to its waiting
new home.
When we set it down
on the kitchen counter it wept white
juice.
So did the major stalk.
But then Dee found a pot
that exclaimed joy
and put the broked piece
in some soil from the major terra
cotta urn.
The piece did not die.
On the window sill
overlooking the struggling
Clarke Hotel
the piece throws out new leaves
in the northwestern sun
ahead of the spines to come.
........................
(footnote: In the rarified air of the downtown,
the Clarke fights on. The liquor license remains
operative for another 60 days. LIVE ON!)
............
Dee is a craftswoman. Our nephew Luke in Pleasant Valley has a birthday on July Fourth. Usually she comes up with a home-made greeting card for him - as she does for other family members - and this year looked up another significance for the Fourth of July.It turns out Independence Day is also known as National Fry An Egg On the Sidewalk Day.
So Dee made a birthday card for Luke on that theme. For the pavement she clipped a piece of sandpaper........
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