February 13, 2012
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1 So....Whitney Houston walks into a bar...
2 Sweet, sweet,sweet talent, and sweet, sweet, sweet singer.
3 She is one for the ages.
4 I don't wish to join the people blaming it on her, or on other people, or on show biz in general.
5 She was young, beautiful, and unquestionably one of the voices of the ages.
6 Her story is tragic, but real.
7 And she will be missed.
8 Everything else has already been said.
9 That voice, and that personality say more to me than everything else being said.
10 Stop a moment and think of Whitney.
11 She brought great joy to all of us. There is too much sadness in the world. Let's remember the love and joy we all know lived inside her, and thank the heavens that she lived in our generation.
12 Moving on, Part the First: Sad weekened. We lost a local treasure last week, Kathy Garcia, who was my daughter's dance teacher, and an amazing choreographer, friend, and mom. I remember when my daughters were tiny dancers, I would pencil small checks in the dance programs about which dances I thought were particularly incredible. In most cases, they were Miss Kathy's dances.
13 My heart goes out to everyone touched by Miss Kathy. Caitlin, Nicoley, and her dance friends gathered together this weekend to pay tribute to the memory of one of the most talented and incredible people I've ever known.
14 To all those in Miss Kathy's world: her spirit and inspiration expanded to places nobody will ever know. Her passing isn't our loss, it is heaven's gain. Let her spirit and smile take you through the week.
15 Moving on, Part the Second: Crazy days last week. On Thursday I had to get a sub for my last period of the day, go to an IEP meeting that lasted around two weeks, get to a dress rehearsal for the American Red Cross talent show, AND somehow sing that night.
16 I probably wrote about it on Friday, but on Friday I had to get up to my Dad's to learn his routine now that he is on dialysis. This meant getting up at around four a.m. so that I could get to his house by seven.
17 Helene took the day off with me, and we managed. We spent the entire weekend experiencing a brand new learning curve, but also enjoyed a few hours sitting at Ocean Beach goofing on people and eating awesome sandwiches from Clancey's Deli on Irving Street.
18 We had no internet access for three days. That couple of hours worked, because life provides plenty of lemons, and we have sometimes to provide the lemonade.
19 Dad came out of the dialysis reasonably unscathed. We all got home, watched Stephen King's Christine, of all things, and somehow all got through it.
20 The teevee got stuck on some channel that was having horror movie marathons. Yesterday we watched Halloween: Twenty Year's Later. It was lots of laughs. At one point, my Dad said, "How's yer wife?" "I don't know, I'll axe her."
21 Dear ol' Dad.
22 I wonder where I get it from?
23 Anyway, we somehow made it; I slept through the night, and now feel tanned, rested, and ready.
24 Moving on, Part the Thoid: Grades are due tomorrow at four in the afternoon. Fortunately, I pounded those down last week, knowing at some point I would need to help with Dad. I graded papers during Grease auditions, and while watching Mike Myers slasher movies.
25 Somehow it all worked.
26 I was even able to make a couple of vocab lists for my classes, although I had no time to put pictures, an added feature that my students have enjoyed in recent weeks. When I insert the pics, I Google the word "sketch" after each entry, so that pictures that resemble dictionary pictures will surface. Last week, I gave the word "edifice". I put the words "edifice sketch" in the Google search. I got a picture of a building that killed its father and married its mother. M'bad.
27 It's all good. We are in a drama unit right now, and I can't think of a nicer thing on a Monday.
28 Today will be whatever it will be, but I know one thing: it will be a classic zombie Monday.
29 Completely consistent with that monster marathon on whatever channel we hooked into.
30 Sounds like a great transition to a Monday. We are all the walking dead on Mondays anyway, so who'll know the diff?
31 So think sweet things today; reflect on the good things, and fly low. Have a laugh.
32 Gottago.
33 Peace.
~H~
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