Month: July 2021

Last day 9

How Kynan draws me.

Trials

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Familiar scenes… Remote learning 5.0

43

Birthday love.

I tried to draw you as a mushroom.

“Those whose love we wanted but didn’t get, we emulate them. It’s the only way we have in our power to get the closeness and the love that we needed and desired.

So when I was a young man and looking for a voice to meld with mine, to sing my songs and to tell my stories, well I chose my father’s voice. Because there was something sacred in it to me.

When I went looking for something to wear, I put on a factory worker’s clothes, because they were my dad’s clothes.

And all we know about manhood is what we have seen and what we have learned from our fathers, and my father was my hero and my greatest foe.”

Bruce Springsteen, Springsteen on Broadway.

So it was that the day before I turned 43, on the advice of my good friend Andy, I discovered Bruce Springsteen through the Springsteen on Broadway live recorded performance. It’s a performance of intimate and rare beauty, and of very profound wisdom. These words resonated with me, a father of three.

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A very fitting way to end this day of preparating a feast for me and my children, tomorrow, to celebrate my 42 years around the sun.

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I say Bring it on.

Habitats

Lockdown Parenting 101

Deck Survivor Voting Station.

(the things you find when they leave)

❤️❤️❤️

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Also this

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Yes

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Ran

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Kilometers !

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Dirty window, secret business deals & tribal council on the deck.

(playing survivor at home- no dad allowed)

Oldies.

(Thanks Google for reminding me how much I love them.)

Frost and Footy

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Two bands I witnessed recently and a winter selfie.

Zsuzsa and I, snapped by Claire, probably circa 2009.

Upon sharing this with me yesterday, Claire warned me. it “makes me so happy and so sad at once”. looking at it I reflect upon the great achievements we produced. the multi-pronged dream we shared and carried. the single minded courage of pushing it through. over and over. the great pride. the beauty and youth of it all. the failures. the shared ambition lost. the prolonged state of paralysis. the silence. the numbing. the dreadful lead to a brave and honest new course of action. the courage showed along the way. of pushing it through again. over and over.

it is often said ignorance is a bliss, for sometimes in acknowledging your truth reality hurts. yet underneath action and inaction always lay a dormant seed. ready to manifest. the truth of two hearts, at time bruised and battered yet ready to rise again.

we are the sharer of a shattered dream. we are the keepers of a new one. we will keep pushing it through, shapeshifting as we need along the way.

Bennywahwah Oohwie.

Merci M(i)el.😋

A day trip to the surf (IV). Some forest spirits.

A day trip to the surf (III). Lorne.

A day trip to the surf (II). Cora Lynn Cascades.

A day trip to the surf (I). Anglesea