Showing posts with label family. Show all posts
Showing posts with label family. Show all posts

Saturday, August 30, 2014

Lake Montebello and Us


I love lake Montebello. I love the people that are there, the regulars and the unregulars that come and go the small and big and young and old and every kind of person and family on feet and on wheels, I love them. The trio of ladies with babies gossiping and waddling, the supercool woman with retro rollerskates and clothes and disco moves circling around and around and around, the ever-present and changing group of racing bikers zooming in their formation like geese. I love the geese too, and the turtle we saw that one time. My kids on their little bikes trucking around trying not to trip up the racers and all the friendly smiles that fall on them and us. Lake Montebello looks like Baltimore and it feels how I wish all Baltimore felt. I am most hopeful about Baltimore, about Ferguson, about the United States of America, about humanity, when at the Lake circling the water and the humanity that sustains us.  

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

family on a porchswing. perfect.


This is the swing my uncle made for us. You cant see the fantastic and colorful carving/painting behind us. But its lovely and says:
Love is the Whole and more than All (e.e.c)

Saturday, April 7, 2007

perfect band name?

what would be a good name for a band of 16 year old musicians? my brother is in search of a band name, and i am working hard to help keep them hip. their ideas were all a little yanni-esque with words like "crystal" and "wind" (sorry bro, but its true). while eating left over party food i came up with: "seven layer teen dip", "chocolate chocolate chip", "recycled wonder", and "dont play nice". they suggested "frisky chickens", i said, how about just "frisky."
suggestions? there is something perfect right there, just beyond my reach...man, what is it?