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…who looks at the world from your unique vantage point,

and who takes The Sound of Music as seriously as you do,

even if she does suffer from the occasional lapse in focus.

[Happy Birthday Auntie Rache! XXOO!]

Setting: Curbside at SFO (San Francisco International Airport).
Time of day: Early afternoon on a Friday; prime time for high-roller weekend travellers.
Characters: The self, the beloved, the bairn. Also: bystanders in line for curbside check-in.
Motivation: Transfer all the paraphernalia out of the vehicle and into some kind of condition which the beloved […]

Photo credit: The beloved.
In which we go to L.A. for a long weekend, and I have to pry friends and family off the lil’ brudder with a spatula and a can of DW-40.

Arise then…women of this day!
Arise, all women who have hearts!
Whether your baptism be of water or of tears!
Say firmly:
“We will not have questions answered by irrelevant agencies,
Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage,
For caresses and applause.
Our sons shall not be taken from us to unlearn
All that we have been able to teach […]

Baba’s eye view, Berkeley, CA.

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…the Baba will watch the child get blueberry smoothie all over everything, and do nothing more than run and snatch up the camera. I’m sparing you another picture of the swirly dress, but verily it is upon her, underneath the hoodie. And the blueberry smoothie is upon it.
Nice facial decor for the Code […]