Kangatopia

By accident, I found a journal of my mother’s last night. As I started to read, I couldn’t believe that she had actually kept a journal, and then as I read further and the truth of what it was dawned on me, I broke down sobbing. Perhaps, not so oddly, John and the [...]

‘A Coat’ :: A poem by William Butler Yeats :: PoetryConnection.net
I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to throat;
But the fools caught it,
Wore it in the world’s eyes
As though they’d wrought it.
Song, let them take it,
For there’s more enterprise
In walking naked.

Derek Walcott – Love After Love
Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation,
you will greet yourself arriving
at your own door, in your own mirror,
and each will smile at the other’s welcome,
And say, sit here. Eat.
You will love again the stranger who was yourself.
Give wine. Give bread. Give back your heart
to itself, to the stranger who [...]

Finally, here are a couple of family pictures from Winston’s 2nd birthday party. I am, of course, behind the camera.

As you might have guessed, I have just uploaded all the digital pictures sitting on my camera to my computer. I’m going through them one by one, but it’s been so long that this project is taking a lot of time and I don’t really have the time to pick and choose or even [...]

Here’s my Dad! He turns 65 today. Happy Birthday, Daddy!!

Yes! You guessed again! Monkey took this picture of Winston’s pressies. She was so proud. She was responsible for stacking the presents and even helped Mommy wrap them!

Yep! You guessed it – I made it myself. Yellow cake, Chocolate frosting, Raspberry filling, Decoration in a sweat frenzied last minute exercise of something.

Bear entered the Second Grade last Monday, and here’s a picture!