Day 4235: Happy Easter, and the Easter Bunny.

    

"Aware":  old photo, junk collage, digital.

 

  

Want music?

 

    

Click : Deniece Williams, Gonna Take a Miracle.

 

  

 

 

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Lookin' dapper

Photo: Helen Wright

Not just for Easter, but sort of related? A pair of eight-year-olds at Chelsea Elementary in Maine started a very cool new trend that's all about being yourself. It's called "Dapper Wednesdays," and every week, people who want to join in dress to the nines for a fashion-filled day. Now, the important thing is that everyone feels good in what they wear. "(You can) wear what you want and just say ‘ I don’t care if somebody bullies me. I'm who I can be,'" said student James Ramage. The school's administration loves it and has even started a "dapper closet" so any kid can find something fun to wear. Cool?

Sometimes

 

Sometimes things don’t go, after all,
from bad to worse. Some years, muscadel
faces down frost; green thrives; the crops don’t fail.
Sometimes a man aims high, and all goes well.

A people sometimes will step back from war,
elect an honest man, decide they care
enough, that they can’t leave some stranger poor.
Some men become what they were born for.

Sometimes our best intentions do not go
amiss; sometimes we do as we meant to.
The sun will sometimes melt a field of sorrow
that seemed hard frozen; may it happen for you.

 

- "Sometimes," by British poet and author Sheenagh Pugh 

Natural Confusion

When young Wonder Woman was about three, Aunt Vonda and I decided we should let her visit the Easter Bunny at South Coast Plaza.

On the way, we mentioned that she would get to visit the Easter Bunny. Our tone told her it was something special. Once in the huge mall, there was excitement in the air. Then as we could see the crowd in the distance, we could see a really tall Easter Bunny.

What we didn't anticipate, was that a three year old might be expecting a small, small than her, soft, furry, cuddly bunny like in her picture books. So, a giant, non-cuddly, not soft bunny who walked on his back legs was just not right. Terrifying in fact.

I can still hear her saying, "I do-not want to meet the bunny!" and again, and again. We didn't make her do it, but we did try to explain and let her watch others meet the Easter Bunny. Instead we moved on to the carousel, where riding on colored animals was okay.

 

 

 

 

  

 

A 4+ minute video, Buffet , here

 

  

Just because ...

 

 

Bird of Paradise

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