Topic: NO MORE TUMULT (Read 17147 times)

Panni · « **Reply #90 on:** August 31, 2004, 02:53:11 PM »

Lovely poem Keith and Jane.

Panni · « **Reply #91 on:** August 31, 2004, 02:54:20 PM »

Jennifer - I think under the circumstances you'd do the same thing (give dad permisssion, that is).

Jane · « **Reply #92 on:** August 31, 2004, 03:09:13 PM »

Thank you Panni. I'm not sure I deserve any more credit than having the sense to marry Keith.

Jane · « **Reply #93 on:** August 31, 2004, 03:23:37 PM »

More from Panni's beautiful home town.

Jane · « **Reply #94 on:** August 31, 2004, 03:26:32 PM »

The dome inside the church.

Jane · « **Reply #95 on:** August 31, 2004, 03:30:05 PM »

Under the dome

Jane · « **Reply #96 on:** August 31, 2004, 03:46:40 PM »

Last photo of the day.

We arrived at the Cathedral in-between weddings. We were enchanted with this little flower girl.

She kept skipping up and down the stairs and Keith had to take multiple photos to capture her in just the right pose. I was relieved we weren’t noticed.

MBarnum · « **Reply #97 on:** August 31, 2004, 03:47:41 PM »

Wow, Jane! No wonder you married Keith...what a beautiful poem!

Good line memorizing vibes to JRand54!!

MBarnum · « **Reply #98 on:** August 31, 2004, 03:49:21 PM »

that photo of the little flower girl looks like it should be in a magazine of some type! Very nice photo!!

And the church is great!

bk · « **Reply #99 on:** August 31, 2004, 03:51:44 PM »

Well, keep them good vibes and xylophones coming strongly because so far they iz working.

Jennifer · « **Reply #100 on:** August 31, 2004, 04:11:39 PM »

Quote from: Jane on August 31, 2004, 02:20:16 PM

Jennifer all along I felt he should stay, even before 911. Did he have a career option if he left? To me it staying was more realistic guess because Keith’s job took him so far from home. The kids and I didn’t like it but it was his job

That's interesting. I was actually stunned when he talked it over with his wife and decided to return home. I didn't think he would do that. And to me THAT showed a lot of courage. He was willing to sacrifice his career for his children.

I guess I was not thinking of him helping others, but merely trying to move forward in his career, to the detriment of his family.

I'm sure there would be other shorter term jobs he could take.

When Keith was away, was it for most of the year? I could understand a father having to go away for a couple months out of the year. But not to miss his kids' entire childhoods.

Jane · « **Reply #101 on:** August 31, 2004, 04:13:11 PM »

Bruce, very happy they are working-more good vibes heading your way!

MBarnum, thank you and thank you. We could hardly keep our eyes off the beautiful little girl.

Panni · « **Reply #102 on:** August 31, 2004, 04:20:48 PM »

Jane - the little flower girl - a very Hungarian pose! I have a photo of myself at around age 3, daintily pulling up my skirt in just the same way.

Tomovoz - Speaking of Hungary - One of the Aussie Olympic gold winners is a Hungarian Aussie - Suzy Balogh.

Jennifer · « **Reply #103 on:** August 31, 2004, 04:24:07 PM »

Wow the sky in that first pic is so blue.

And that flower girl is so cute!

Jane · « **Reply #104 on:** August 31, 2004, 04:25:56 PM »

Quote from: Jennifer on August 31, 2004, 04:11:39 PM

When Keith was away, was it for most of the year? I could understand a father having to go away for a couple months out of the year. But not to miss his kids' entire childhoods.

He came and went constantly. He was a million mile traveler on Northwest Airlines. We still have free miles on United. The longest he traveled at one time was in South America for close to a month. Bryan was 5 and Craig 2½. I got very sick and Bryan had to help take care of Craig. That was the worst experience. Unless he went out of the country he was rarely gone more than a week. Only a few times did I have difficulty reaching him by phone. Russia was one of those. He had some great assistants that could relay messages from me and I did get to tag along on some great trips. We kept thinking Keith would travel less as the boys got older-never happened. I always knew he could come home if I needed him and we talked almost every day-at least once. I don’t think I could have handled him being away for months at a time but people do and they learn to live with it. If I had had family close by the separations would have been easier on us.

Jane · « **Reply #105 on:** August 31, 2004, 04:28:26 PM »

Panni-post the photo.

Matt H. · « **Reply #106 on:** August 31, 2004, 04:29:40 PM »

I agree with DR Jane. Bitty's character (and her son to a lesser degree since he doesn't figure in every episode) grounds the show and also supplies some of the funniest comedy the show has had (the second season episode in Mexico and the episode where she repeatedly told Monk to "suck it up," for example).

Michael · « **Reply #107 on:** August 31, 2004, 04:48:50 PM »

I am a published poet.

It was in the Canadian journal Viewpoints which no longer publishes I had two poems published and I recieved 25$C for them. I think I was 8 or 9 years old. I only remember one of them.

The Game
There is a game
The hardest one
No one knows how to play
You don't roll doubles
Or get two hundred for passing "go"
The game is called peace

Michael · « **Reply #108 on:** August 31, 2004, 04:51:43 PM »

I hopefully will know what I am doing by my bed time. I am hoping it will be L.A. The storm has taken a turn towards SE and Centeral Florida and they won't know by Thursday late. But by then it will be too late to make plans.

Michael · « **Reply #109 on:** August 31, 2004, 04:55:53 PM »

I went to look for Swishy Sarah on the www and this is what I found

happy birthday!

Panni · « **Reply #110 on:** August 31, 2004, 04:58:50 PM »

Quote from: Jane on August 31, 2004, 04:28:26 PM

Panni-post the photo.

I'll try - but it's not very clear in the transfer. Anyway, here's little Panni of Budapest, in the typical Hungarian skirt lifting pose, age 2 years and 4 months.

Panni · « **Reply #111 on:** August 31, 2004, 05:15:02 PM »

I'll try posting this one because I love it. There might be too much reflection from the glass (it's framed). It's a sepia photo of my mother's sister, my Aunt Georgette (Gyorgyi) -- who looked like Gene Tierney in her youth - as she was getting ready for her debutante ball. Notice all the flowers she received - and the gorgeous art behind her. This was pre-WWII, before the Nazis took everything.

Tomovoz · « **Reply #112 on:** August 31, 2004, 05:17:43 PM »

Quote from: Panni on August 31, 2004, 04:20:48 PM

Tomovoz - Speaking of Hungary - One of the Aussie Olympic gold winners is a Hungarian Aussie - Suzy Balogh.

And here I was thinking that it was a Canadian plot to infiltrate the world. Hungarians are well remembered in Melbourne for the Water polo in 1956!

S. Woody White · « **Reply #113 on:** August 31, 2004, 05:45:36 PM »

Quote from: Jennifer on August 31, 2004, 04:11:39 PM

...I could understand a father having to go away for a couple months out of the year. But not to miss his kids' entire childhoods.

There was a lot of my childhood (and that of my sister) that Dad missed out on, because of his job. He would have to leave for weeks at a time, and not know when he would return. Mom coped, ran the household, lived with not being able to talk with him on the phone while he was gone (he was doing engineering work with the defense dept.).

And there was too much that he wasn't allowed to talk about when he returned. Somehow, they managed to get through it all.

But it took years for myself and him to learn how to communicate, something we've only mastered after I became an adult. Was it a disfunctional childhood? Sure. But none of us are pointing fingers at each other, playing blame games. It's the hand that life dealt us.

We had it easy, compared to what Der Brucer faced raising his family. He had to spend months away when he was with the Navy, and after leaving the service found himself not "allowed" to help raise the kids. Every time he did, his wife would undo everything he tried. That's the real reason he left them, because he was pushed out.

I've seen similar things happen to other servicemen, when they return to their families. The families are already functioning without them, and are unprepared to reintegrate the fathers into the structure.

So, bringing us back to Tiger Cruise, I was rooting for the father staying with the Navy, and for the daughter to stop being such a selfish brat. The daughter in the film learned from the cruise what she was supposed to learn, crisis or no: that the military is a way of life, that the fathers (and others) are there for a reason, and that the families have to adapt. For that matter, the father of the cook learned the same lesson.

Good film, Panni, well written.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #114 on:** August 31, 2004, 05:49:49 PM »

THE FLETCHER CHRONICLES:

Right now, he's found the lid to a cardboard box, and has decided to demolish it.

Earlier, he and Bonnie were getting familiar with each other. Sure, she was baring her teeth and snarling (which he couldn't hear), but she was licking his nose at the same time.

Earlier still, while I was napping a headcold away, the whole tribe was "caving" with me on my bed, each picking a place. Except for Marty, the Lab. He's being the least accepting of this new guy with the spots. Some things take time.

S. Woody White · « **Reply #115 on:** August 31, 2004, 05:50:58 PM »

I'll try to get back later. Time to fix dinner (apples and taters and pork = yum!)

Sandra · « **Reply #116 on:** August 31, 2004, 05:55:19 PM »

Oy. Today's topic is too much like school. I'm going back to sleep.

Happy birthday, Swishy Sarah.

Panni · « **Reply #117 on:** August 31, 2004, 05:59:45 PM »

Quote from: Sandra on August 31, 2004, 05:55:19 PM

Oy. Today's topic is too much like school. I'm going back to sleep.

And that's what's wrong with the way poetry is taught in school...

Panni · « **Reply #118 on:** August 31, 2004, 06:00:26 PM »

Thanks, SWW.

Danise · « **Reply #119 on:** August 31, 2004, 06:06:56 PM »

Evening all!

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Michael Shayne
HHW God
Re:THE MOLD PEOPLE
« Reply #98 on: Yesterday at 06:24:34pm »

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I understand a hurricane is headed my way. What to do what to do. I just might have to get a last minute airline ticket to LA and see What If?

At work, we have been getting 2 daily reports on the hurricane since Monday.

The latest information seems to show that it will pass Southern Florida and will be going into the Jacksonville area. Of course, as we all know, that could change in a heartbeat.

Considering this could be a very bad storm, getting out of town might not be a bad thing.

I sincerely hope that if you do find yourself in the storms path that you keep both yourself and your dear ones as safe as possible.

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I have to say how much I am enjoying reading the FLETCHER saga. Is Fletcher already trained to American Sign Language and you both just need to learn it to talk with him?

Nobody answered my question!

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S. Woody White
HHW God
Re:THE MOLD PEOPLE
« Reply #109 on: Yesterday at 08:23:33pm »

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The Fletcher Chronicles:
If there is a problem with Fletcher, it is in his...well, in his farts. He has really stinky ones, and is not concerned about how unsociable they may appear (or smell).

I had to laugh at that. Brandi has the very same problem. I do hope you don't have to deal with diarrhea as well. That is a major problem with Brandi. In the winter when it gets to cold to leave her out all night long, I have to get up about ever half hour or so to leave her out (I know I need a doggie door) or deal with the consequences. Ugh. Not to be punny but I am always dog tired the next day!

Happy Birthday, Sarah! When I was 17, it was a very good year........

I love poetry but I fear I am not good with titles or authors.

I come across them in strange ways. For example, I am a fan of Loreena McKennitt who sings Celtic songs.

Imagine my surprise when two of her songs, The Highway Man and The Lady of Shalott, turned out to poems that I remembered from high school! I remember the first time I heard them and I kept thinking, “I know this but from where?” Had I read the notes on the CD, I would have realized sooner.

I would post them here but they are both quite long.

I have many other favorites but we have storm brewing. Gotta run. Lots of lightning. What a wonderful cool breeze it's bringing!

Have a good evening all!

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