In this edition of In The Neighborhood I travel thru a local restaurant...
There is a gentleman who works the drive thru window at one of my favorite places for breakfast. He is always busy and has a way of making you feel at ease no matter what kind of day your having.
After an incredibly busy day last Friday I slipped through to get lunch for my Jeffy and myself and he was working.
I noticed he was wearing a Superman tie and commented that it was a great tie. He was cordial and replied that he (superman) gets him through many days. I simply replied we all need a hero. He agreed and I went on my way.
Today it was a quick cola to start the day and a simple tie. I remarked that I missed superman. He said that this was his MADD tie print patterned after tequila under the microscope. Such a simple thing but very telling item.
This simple man with a fuzzy beard and shaggy hair has taught me a lesson about life that I think we all could stand to learn; no matter our age we all need a hero!
Simple or fantastic heroes are more than police/fire/millitary, though wonderful and necessary, heroes can simply be the guy who reminds you about bigger things in life. Just like my drive thru neighborhood hero!
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Once upon a time
In a far away land there was a castle of earth and stone. It was a castle of life and healing as well as pain and death.
Throughout time this place was revered in the land and by it's neighbors and countrymen came to be known as Union Hospital.
It was inside these great walls that upon this 11th passing of the sun in the year 2002 during the season of spring the young prophet Elijah Glen Burkhart sought his first breath!
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Throughout time this place was revered in the land and by it's neighbors and countrymen came to be known as Union Hospital.
It was inside these great walls that upon this 11th passing of the sun in the year 2002 during the season of spring the young prophet Elijah Glen Burkhart sought his first breath!
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Thursday, April 1, 2010
Today I am Queen April
Being named April on this Fool's Day wasn't pleasant as a child. Kids would tease and pully hair and sing your a fool, your a fool, your a fool!
It wasn't until my third grade teacher Mrs. Hawkins told me the holiday was fool's day, a possessive by which owing to my name I was queen of all fools whom seek to prank and tease, that I became empowered to right this small social injustice!
Three years ago my yougest tried to pull the same old sing song teasing on me and it didn't work. I played my queen card with pride, he informed me that real queens have crowns and I told him mine was in the shop so I fashioned one for myself out of construction paper and wore it all day!
Ladies and gents at the grocers looked at me funny and I didn't care I was proving a point!
I have a co-mother (think coworker) who celebrates this holiday with ice cream breakfast sundaes and breakfast for supper. Me I journey through with a knowledge that the prankers are my court jesters and I am queen for a day!
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It wasn't until my third grade teacher Mrs. Hawkins told me the holiday was fool's day, a possessive by which owing to my name I was queen of all fools whom seek to prank and tease, that I became empowered to right this small social injustice!
Three years ago my yougest tried to pull the same old sing song teasing on me and it didn't work. I played my queen card with pride, he informed me that real queens have crowns and I told him mine was in the shop so I fashioned one for myself out of construction paper and wore it all day!
Ladies and gents at the grocers looked at me funny and I didn't care I was proving a point!
I have a co-mother (think coworker) who celebrates this holiday with ice cream breakfast sundaes and breakfast for supper. Me I journey through with a knowledge that the prankers are my court jesters and I am queen for a day!
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@Knit4love
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
Sticky Pants
Avery, my movie star eight year old, came home from school in a pair of shorts which I had never seen before.
He had a calm demeanor as he strode in the house exclaiming, "Sticky pants!" Upon further questioning he at last made it made it clear that at lunch he sat on "mint gum" and bumped his knees on the table's underside and acquired a patch on the front of his best pair of britches.
Avery said, "the nurse sent me home in these so I didn't spread gum all over school. I like them a lot!"
A bottle of carbona and a washing pants good as new and Mr. Sticky Pants has blessed us with another fine example of a mom with her hands full.
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He had a calm demeanor as he strode in the house exclaiming, "Sticky pants!" Upon further questioning he at last made it made it clear that at lunch he sat on "mint gum" and bumped his knees on the table's underside and acquired a patch on the front of his best pair of britches.
Avery said, "the nurse sent me home in these so I didn't spread gum all over school. I like them a lot!"
A bottle of carbona and a washing pants good as new and Mr. Sticky Pants has blessed us with another fine example of a mom with her hands full.
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