As told 2 Little Man, as he awaited for his night shift 2 begin…
“how can U forget, Robert Duval, shirt off, navy blue handkerchief around his neck, aviator dark glasses and mounted infantry hat on his head, as a swarm of planes drop their morning hail of destruction on a jungle that refuses to die…gees, Little Man, don’t U remember…and the song playing on loud speakers…I can’t remember…that’s why I’m asking you…can U call Robin Williams for me…WELCOME 2 VIETNAM…the Hollywood treatment
Little Man is thinking of the evening ahead (but also scanning songs in his head: Grace Slick…white rabbit begins
Full throttle); he decides against telling this trivia 2 little everyman, and instead, begins:
LM: Do U remember that scene in “Little Big Horn”…Dustin Hoffman becomes tiny…as a non-native child in a Native tribe…attempting 2 reconcile his dual existence, both a sinner and a saint in loin cloth.
EM: so, U R not going 2 tell me the song…I am 2 grown up 2 listen 2 stories about cowboys & Indians…I am small but I am not a kid.
LM goes on: the tribe’s ranking elder had wandered off alone 2 prepare 4 his departure…building a platform 2 lay
on 4 easy landing and take-off 2 the next stop in the beautiful ever-lasting NOW.
EM: it wouldn’t hurt U no 2 just tell me the song…
LM: after the elder had stretched out 4 many hours, with his eyes closed and his breathing not noticeable, a mist began 2 fall…and the winds picked up their pace as if running from the approaching storm…large drop of rain were whipped in 2 the face and eyes of the elder…his eyes, under attack… begin 2 ask invisible questions…and then, as if 2 C 4 themselves what is happening…they open
EM: it is now fully dark and I will go…
LM: Keep U R eyes open…
It is not clear to whom LM is speaking…so I will leave it here.
HONORING HER MEMORY
Christina Taylor Green (9/11/2001 - 1/8/2011)
"I just want her memory to live on, she's a face of hope, a face of change," she said. "Stop the violence, stop the hatred." Mother quote
A life bracketed by two national tragedies: born on the day (9/11/2001) of the bombing of the Twin Towers in New York; died on the day (1/8/2011) of the tragic shootings in Tucson, Arizona.
All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations. Obama quote
Obama Arizona Speech: 'I Want America To Be As Good As She Imagined It'
A suggestion is never a rule…if uddered by some 1 U luv
In the words of a wonderful and loving friend:
“I am starving for relationships… that are nourishing, congruent and genuine.
In life so many… relationships are surface relationships (I also call them veneer relationships.) The surface is scratched, the person’s heart and spirit is never reached.
…with middle school age children, I am the ears they so badly needed to listen to them. I am the non judging voice of understanding and reason. The boundary setter for they know no boundaries. Their safe heaven to share their dreams and disappointments.
…my passion for the elderly to assist them in fully living regardless of their physical limitations make me whole. My caring is rarely rejected and I regardless of
the amount of positive impact I may or may not
… the act of loving my fellow humans brings me joy and strength to continue on and stay in the light.”
2 the other side, do not believe 4 a moment that R thru telling U 2:
stand up straight 4 god's sake (i have looked, what chapter/verse says that);
U (meaning "us" guys) R filthy: U need a bath; a shave; a hair-cut; a new pair of shoes, when did U last get UR teeth checked...get a check up..get a finger up URs (prostrate ? )...call UR Mom (she is listening over UR shoulder, U speak 2 her)....and,
always saving the real "message-of-the-moment" 4 maximum effect...having shredded the notion of trying 2 stand UR ground...a pliant wee little boy once again...
"how many times must i say this (she, as U well understand, is using this as a rhetorical aside, and IS NOT asking a question 4 U 2 answer...heaven forbid)...i can ream my family in a dozen different ways...but U will never do that in front of me or 2 any of your friends, or UR FAMILY or anywhere or anyone
What have U been saying about them...get the paddle...
