may is here; it's lush and beautiful, flowers popping and grasses going to seed if you but turn the other way. got to my son's school the other day and mulberries were popping everywhere especially out front by the parking lot. they were a little nervous about letting the kids just pick them, because kids were getting stained left and right and there were a lot of purple t-shirts. i myself took my kid out front and we both got the purple hand, ate a dozen and picked a dozen more, left the lunch box out there by the parking lot in the process. with my beautiful purple hand i came into work that morning, and the workers were coming down, office to office, having to get into the pipes that run the heating and cooling.
well this required the moving of this big ornery cactus which was really having a great time growing back there by the corner where there's tons of light and it's nice and dry and warm and nobody bugs you. but moving this cactus messed up my purple hand. where it had been purple and sticky, now it had sharp tiny little cacti prickles in it. what a way to start my day. as usual i made pipe-cleaning black coffee and went on my way down the hall.
the ten-year-old pointed out rightly that the tooth fairy had neglected to put anything under his pillow when he'd lost a tooth. we'd already teased him that the tooth fairy would be better off giving him apps than money anyway, since he's so into apps and doesn't have any use for money, you need a credit card for apps anyway although he can always con his mom into taking money for the use of her credit card to buy apps. what kinds of apps does he want? i have no idea. they may be doing some game as the ones i saw earlier were doing, but he already knows more about it than i do and i have a vague sense of unease as he goes off with friends to explore, online now, whereas i as a kid used to explore railroad tracks, old wooded patches, creekbeds, etc.
the tooth fairy i think is a kind of reverse santa claus, people don't go to much trouble to truly convince anyone that she magically comes by and delivers crisp dollars, or quarters or dimes as it was in my youth, or apps, or whatever. and she forgets, not once, but sometimes several nights in a row, or the parents complain about inflation or simply roll the dollar into some other fund that's being transfered when one is ten. and they disparage her especially if she doesn't have the right change or the dollar bill is old and torn like it didn't come from magic. this is when you just about get to say it out loud directly. hey, you don't deserve a buck for losing a tooth anyway, everyone loses a tooth, there's nothing inherently good about a kid who lives to lose another tooth. it happens, it happens to everyone. i'm sure some kids are hauling in more than a buck, some probably don't even know who the tooth fairy is. that's kind of different from santa, because everyone knows that dude & counts up pretty carefully what they haul in from him. my son wasn't even so upset about the tooth fairy, he figured he'd haul it in sooner or later anyway.
more later, it's gotten late, and only the dogs remain waiting for me to give up.
Thursday, May 03, 2012
creative home of tom leverett, galesburg, illinois, usa
Feast on
short stories!
e pluribus
haiku
galesburg
be there or be
family weblogs
- jim leverett's photography
- needle on vinyl
- elias' youtube channel
- corey
- corey and tom's trueblue site
- j leigh d, my wife
- doctor pistachio, my daughter
- noah
- Justin's myspace
- throughthewebcam
- justin's blogs
- justin's audio blog
other favorites
- Read4fun
- 50265
- annecentral.blogspot
- chicana on the edge
- dadtalk
- empty bottle
- i only take pics
- jackzen
- joi ito
- language log
- late bloomer in a small pond
- savor the southwest
- lazy gardener
- moleskinerie
- my heart's in accra
- parking lot
- postsecret
- robert l. peters
- sushicam
- world of wise
- wtf-shakespeare
- more
lighthouse tour
the purpose of this tour is to show you some cool things on weblogs. click on the lighthouse to get to another weblog. always scroll down the sidebar until you see this lighthouse, and you can continue going to cool weblogs that show some of the things i use weblogs for. eventually you will have the choice of returning here or going onto facebook. enjoy!
cloudcroft
lubbock
music
- parsley sagebrush myspace
- felix y los gatos
- afel bocoum jukebox
- klezmer mountain boys, my sister's band
- julie fowlis
- horo ghalleadh
- andrew calhoun
- matt yetter
- huun huur tu
- the HU
- harry manx
- cajun music
- folk alley
- jango
- rock
other links
log in
some o' mine
- tlevs press
- blatant self-promo
- cloudcroft
- folk tales
- folk tale index
- rearview mirror
- professional home
- parsley sagebrush
- tlevs press
- yeah write!
- pop art
- sharpen! (pop art)
- a href, link poetry
- e pluribus haiku
- quakersrock & plays
- boxcars on walnut
- land-a-linkin
- this is your brain
- where u at w/chat?
- africahub
- blogroll
noah's poetry
quotes to live by
"it's better to be unable to remember, than unable to forget""if you want kindling, just axe"
"those who flunk history are bound to repeat it"
"there's more than one way to beat a dead horse..."
"life is pointless without geometry"
"mother earth is bipolar...maybe that explains everything..."
"follow the nurse's motto...stick softly, and carry a big speak..."
"life is a lesson in attachment(s)...especially if you have a mac and everyone else has a pc..."
"a lollipop is born every minute"
"you can eat your cake and wear it too"
"if the cake fits, wear it"
"a small town is full of three-year-olds who can count to a thousand, sixteen-year-olds who can't give you change for a dollar at the local Casey's, and adults who don't see the connection."
"if you love speed, drive fast...if you love power, drive fast...but if you love driving, what's the hurry?"
cartoon by leah kang
other folks' quotes to live by:
if you come to a fork in the road, take it....-yogi berrathe cemetery is full of people who were irreplaceable...-(nyc) mayor bloomberg
learn the rules...then forget them...-basho
the reason nobody uses their turn signals in the midwest is that everyone knows where everyone is going...
in a small town, there isn't much to see, but what you hear makes up for it...-randy heuring
freedom of speech is the right to shout "theater!" in a crowded fire... -abbie hoffman
family
other family links
- Dad (he wrote the book)
- bruce, older brother
- margot, diva
- leverett genealogy
- wallace genealogy
- Shutdowns
- justin's xanga
- noey's facebook
family photos
graphics
- halfway to graceland
- write!
- what crash?
- thinking of you
- death & texans
- maxwell street
- abe
- just passing through
- land-a-linkin'
just passing through:
true stories from out there
- rattler's welcome, northern mexico
- salmon boat, ninilchik, alaska
- al-can highway, yukon territory
- canadian rockies train
- comm ave, boston
- cold day in new york
- eyes on the road- solon road, iowa
- not far from normal- illinois
- layover: ft. nelson, b.c.
- desert train, nevada to utah
- je me souviens, quebec
- long beach trail, vancouver island
- winnipeg in july
- culture rudder- mexico to florida
- one day in amish country, english river valley
- index to all
e pluribus haiku: the novel
Previous Posts
- happy birthday! april rocks!
- they were still talking about popocatapetl (sho...
- i'm on the cusp of believing in astrology, but i'm...
- it was a big day in that i played shryock, a place...
- almutanabbi:
- voir dire is the legal word for when they call pos...
- rushed home from work the other day because the ai...
- in africa they discover oil in country after count...
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
<< Home