Monday, February 8, 2010

My JUJU bean called me.


I hate the phone! I can't hug somebody, over the phone and I also can't hit somebody, over the phone (I guess that is a mercy:). But the phone rang on Saturday and it was Ju.
Uh-oh, what is wrong. A crying season for my precious daughter vaunted the unexpected ring. We made full use of the time. Encouraging and refreshing as a taste of NY Pizza and a real NY bagel. I was sick and laying in my bed and it woke me up enough to do at least one room of vacuuming and half a sink of dishes and 2 loads of laundry, before falling back into bed in my congestion.
Today I feel better and I am sure that the call and the echinacea, vitamin c, oranges and a call from my baby sis, subway sis, stayup night singing partner, follower and leader, teacher and disciple, friend and so many more things did much to help heal, at least a part of my homesickness and definitely my congestion abated some. Thanks JU!



Did I tell you how Ju was born? I had to get some of my story from Grandma, because Ju's birth story beat us all out. She was always meant to be a show girl. As though the curtain was rising on the world she waited till all the family was together at Aunt Helen's birthday party to break water. They would talk about it every year. (What a show off) To choose to make such a fuss was exemplary of what she would be for the rest of her life. My baby sister the show off!:) Keep showing out, Girl!
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Joanne Bodden said...

WOW! facebook does spark some serious concern. Ju called me concerned too about all of that. I think the kids dont believe we are all really reading their pages but we are! Ju is really a family Gem for sure She has started african dancing in manhattan I am so proud of her! We have to come out there to visit you Jayne Cause i miss you too. Well lots of love !

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Title- The Studious One!

Title- The Studious One!
artwork by Elyse

Of biscuits and syrup

Of biscuits and syrup
tasty treats

Happy Saturday!

Happy Saturday!
a day at the Raptor Center.

Widdle Emmie in outer space school

Emmie jumped on the bus and off it flew out into the atmosphere. There was a set of clouds with turbulence right above the house and it took a few minutes for my Emmie to buckle her seatbelt. They hit the bump hard and it knocked my Emmie out of her seat and she bumped her head. The video camera came on and the monitor looked through and stated, Ms. Emmie, where are you? You are not in your seat. Where are you? I am alright I fell because I hadn’t buckled correctly. Well jump up Emmie we have a long way to go and you have to be buckled there is entirely too much turbulence in the stratosphere for you to unbuckle now. As soon as we are through this weather system there will be straight sailing but right now you must buckle. Emmie scrambled into the seat with intensity and purpose now. She watched every cloud pass her window and her nose was pressed to the window trying to see the top of the house as it drifted slowly out of sight. Soon they were not only out of sight of the house, the sun came out brightly and just as quickly they were putting on the atmospherical breathing apparatus and the outerspherical lights. The ABA and the OL. These precautions were to make them appear to be satellites to the radar as they were out in the ionosphere. Emmie knew all about this now. She had gone to the orientation and had a good breakfast and it took them 20 minutes for her to get out past the atmospherical pull and to feel the zero gravity. It would be 15 minutes before the gravity simulators would take effect, a glitch in the system which was being worked on. Until then, they enjoyed the couple of minutes of floatation, while being connected to the seats by belt. The first thing they saw everyday was the strataflotsam. The items which had been dumped into the atmosphere by earlier generations. What would their generation do about this ecological waste area that remained floating above their heads? This was a question for the generations. For now it was the area that they had to guide through on the way to school.

Midnight at the OASIS

Midnight at the OASIS
Sunset in Huntersville

My little Emmie

ran to the bus on the first day of the last year of school. 2 buns on the side of her head. She kissed me and ran at dawn to the bus. She was starting the adventure of a lifetime. I would never see that little girl again, she was going to woman school!

My Father and I 1989

My Father and I 1989

to the tune of Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme

A VISIT TO PAPA











Are you going to Mary Immaculate?

Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



Remember me to the one who lived there,



He once was a true love of mine,



Tell him to buy me an acre of land,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



Between the muddy Hudson in Jamaica Bay,



Then, He’ll be a true love of mine,

Tell him to sow in it seeds of pure cream,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



And build Ice cream mountains and buildings of whipped cream,

Then, He’ll be a true love of mine,



Tell him to reap them with sickles of M&M’s,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



And chew bubble gum and eat till we’re done,



Then, He’ll be a true love of mine.



Tell him to run it off down the motor parkway,



Apricots, Chocolate Cherries and Pie,



After your done 50 pushups



and jog down the West Side Highway,



Then he’ll be a true love of mine…

(Don’t wait for me today dad, The kids are sick again, My tummy’s bulging again, My heart is aching again, And now there’s no love there…)





He once was, a true love of mine….So, Girls, I do beg you don't miss your Daddy,Apricots, Chocolate cherries and Pie,You have one short chance to see him on this side, Go visit him and let your light shine.