Category: Family and Friends

Friday: Flowers at Grandparent’s Breakfast at Sophia’s school

On April 25th Sophia”s school hosted a breakfast for grandparents. The children made ball point pens into flowers for the table center pieces. The kids were encouraged to ask us questions about how life may have differed when we were their age. They also wrote a composition which described their own life in the future — when they’d be sixty five. A great time was certainly had by all.

Additional photographs from this event can be viewed here.

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Tanya and the other parents brought around the coffee, water and a variety of juices; as well as served the various hot dishes which complemented the fruits, cakes, rolls, croissants and kringles.

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Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph, 28 mm Summicron Asph

Valentines’ Day:

Sophia called me to say, “Happy Valentine’s Day.” And invited me to a grandparent’s breakfast, at her school, in April.

Tanya and Sophia had already attended a parent/teacher’s conference and next planned to see the dentist around 11:30. I asked for a ride  to run an errand and was granted my request. On the way to my bank Tanya and I talked a lot about bread; as Sophia read recipes from the Tassajara Bread Book which I’d just returned to Tanya. With our errands completed we enjoyed a delightful “surprise” lunch at A.J.Bombers to celebrate Sophia’s exemplary parent teacher’s conference report.

We ate lots of peanuts. Threw the shells on the floor. Sophia wrote on the graffiti covered walls while waiting for our burgers and grilled cheese sandwiches. I contemplated how quickly our children grow into young women (or men).

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Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph

When I returned home I made a chocolate cake (and cupcakes) for Ann;
to accompany her home roasted coffee beans from Bali;
and some thoughts on paper.

Leica R8/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit

Writers and windows at the intersection of back then and here now

Ananda Walker, David White and I met for a second time to see, hear, and creatively encounter one another. We discussed histories, publishing, creativity, book and film recommendations.

Hot off the press: Death Is A Transformation by Ananda (April) Walker

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Leica M8, 50 mm Summilux Asph

The Milwaukee River… summer… simple, wet and muddy pleasures…

the roar of water falling
providing altered states.
with senses filling
and flowing thoughtlessly
within the river — with Sophia
— George Lottermoser

Two Ways of Seeing a River

by Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Now when I had mastered the language of this water and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored to me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry had gone out of the majestic river!

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Leica M8, 28 mm Summicron Asph, 50 mm Summilux Asph