Hey, Mom! Talking to My Mother #1147 - The Fort - Birthday 1968 - Throwback 1901.17 - a sense of doubt post #1427
Hi Mom, It's almost another birthday without you.
I have been saving up these photos for a while. These are from my sixth birthday while we're still in Traverse City but later this year we will move to Schoolcraft.
The Fantastic Four cartoon is popular on TV. I am also VERY MUCH into Captain Action, who is featured in the photo.
But in examining the photo album, I found something strange. It looks like my presents were spread too widely to include the fort, so you took a second picture and then cut out just the missing part, the toy fort playset, and added that snippet. I re-assembled it as it should be in the photo above that I present below: first, re-assembled as it should look, next how I found it in the photo album with that separate piece tucked in with the main photo, and then the main photo without the extra piece.
Mom, these photos and the care you took to do extra to capture the scene properly gives me yet one more example of the complete and unconditional love you had for me and my sister (who was not yet born we these photos were taken) and should show any readers the very essence of my idyllic life.
It seems that even before losing you, but certainly since, these are the things I think about, and I am filled with such intense GRATITUDE for the life you created for me, Mom.
I love this example of that love and that life.
Also, please note the goldfish bowl in the photos, which connects with another recent photo:
Hey Mom #1136 - Introversion.
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| photo Birthday 1968 - with fort playset added |
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| photo Birthday 1968 - fort playset as stand alone in photo album |
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| photo Birthday 1968 - without added snippet of the fort playset |
I like that our family took these photos with gifts for holidays, and I know, Mom, that these types of photos are the majority of what I share because they are the majority of what I have to share.
I love our family photos, but I do wish we had more candid photos just from daily life and the state of rooms just in day-to-day existence. So much of our lives have been lost in time and in gaps in our memories.
Aren't those Fantastic Four drawings Dad did as decoration awesome? And then there's that house decoration, directly to my left in the photo, which if memory serves was a house dad made out of paper and cardboard and ink pen drawings that depicted the Munsters and their haunted house (or was it not haunted? I forget.).
Of course, there are many books and even comic books in the photo that were gifts. Colorforms were a thing in 1968, so below the goldfish bowl and next to Captain Action, there's clearly a Wizard of Oz colorform. But there's something out in front of Captain Action and to the right of the fort, and I cannot see what it is. It might be Lincoln Logs. I just talked to Dad. The yellow chimney piece sort of gives it away. That's a Lincoln Log set that Dad helped me put together a log cabin with a cantilevered facade.
This next image has nothing to do with my birthday, which is Saturday, but it passed across my screen saver earlier, and so I decided to use it as separator because I love it. It comes from the recent Hugo winning Ms. Marvel comic.
I like what the page has to tell us about hope and endings which are beginnings (which is infinity).
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| Ms Marvel 19 pg3 |
VARIOUS AND SUNDRY
First, a couple of tweets that I collected since last week. Both from Scalzi.
I dreamt the phone rang and my wife called down to say it was @scalzi, who wanted to talk about the latest scandal in the science fiction community. As we began to chat, I wondered — which one? There were so many! But I woke before we got to the meat of the conversation.— Scott Edelman (@scottedelman) January 13, 2019
What a genuine fucking embarrassment this man is. pic.twitter.com/ep5BvJU8Ej— John Scalzi (@scalzi) January 15, 2019
This is a terrible situation, which puts science fiction squabbles and more moronic circus side show freakazoid nonsense by Trump into perspective as the folly it all is.
I may not have always liked how Enes Kanter conducts himself on the basketball court and on Twitter, but I feel for him and his situation. I wish him all the best, the greatest safety, and success.
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| https://time.com/5506401/enes-kanter-nba-talks-turkey-warrant/ |
Turkey accusing Enes Kanter of being part of terror group
http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/25776360/turkey-seeking-warrant-enes-kanter-new-york-knicks
Turkish prosecutors are seeking an international arrest warrant for New York Knicks center Enes Kanter, accusing him of membership in a terror organization.
Sabah newspaper says the Istanbul chief prosecutor's office had also prepared an extradition request for the NBA player.
The newspaper says prosecutors are seeking an Interpol "Red Notice" citing Kanter's ties to exiled Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is blamed for a failed coup in 2016, and accusing him of providing financial support to his group. Officials at the prosecutor's office could not be reached for comment.
Kanter reacted to the report in a tweet Wednesday.
The newspaper says prosecutors are seeking an Interpol "Red Notice" citing Kanter's ties to exiled Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is blamed for a failed coup in 2016, and accusing him of providing financial support to his group. Officials at the prosecutor's office could not be reached for comment.
Kanter reacted to the report in a tweet Wednesday.
According to Interpol, a Red Notice is a request to locate and provisionally arrest an individual pending extradition. For Kanter to be extradited, the United States would have to be convinced that Kanter committed a crime prosecutable in the U.S.
In November, Turkey made similar extradition requests for more than 80 people that the country said were linked to Gulen.
Earlier this month, Kanter refused to travel to London for Thursday's game against the Washington Wizards, saying he feared he could be assassinated for his opposition to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
Kanter has been an outspoken critic of Erdogan, and his Turkish passport was revoked in 2017.
He said he feared assassination if he left the U.S. or Canada when he announced last week that he wouldn't travel with the Knicks. The team said at the time that Kanter wouldn't make the trip because of a visa issue.
Kanter denied that was the problem, even posting a photo of a travel document on social media, and made it clear his issue was his safety because of Erdogan, whom he has referred to as "the Hitler of our century."
"They've got a lot of spies there," Kanter said. "I think I can get killed there easy. It would be a very ugly situation."
While the Knicks are overseas, Kanter has posted a number of photos of himself meeting with U.S. congressmen. He also wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post explaining his decision and his reasons for standing against Erdogan.
"My decision not to travel to London was difficult from a competitive standpoint but much easier from a safety one," he wrote. "It helps puts a spotlight on how a dictator is wrecking Turkey -- people have been killed, thousands are unjustly imprisoned, and countless lives have been ruined. That is no game."
ESPN News Services - The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Here's some images that were near the Ms. Marvel page that I really like and this is my blog and it's soon my birthday, so here's some cool stuff to oggle.
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| Mike Ploog |
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| Mars One Project |
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| Martha and the Muffins - This is the Ice Age |
Breakfast 1901.11.
Scenes from my LCC class room.
Guess what I am teaching?
Preparing to relax and read comics with football playing for self-care by merging the current comics stack with two stacks of back logged comics.
DOG PARK - RIDGEFIELD 1901.12
Chris got a DOG SHAMING calendar for Christmas!
Almost brought Satchel to the PDX airport when I picked up Liesel from her flight from Hawai'i. Pets in the terminal is a thing in Portland.ELLORY IS PURE LOVE.
1901.12 - At Fat Moose getting prime rib and Olympia Beer made special wildlife things. Because. WASHINGTON STATE.
Lunch 1901.12.
Special limited edition, Kalamazoo College hat in Pink with FINN JOHNSON's (RIP) soccer jersey #20 on the back a gift to me from Finn's father Bruce "Frisbee" Johnson.
Ten years ago this August, Liesel dropped me this note while we flew to Portland for Rob's wedding, but we had to sit separately. It's a love note. I am keeping its contents private. I put it in my glasses case to keep it safe. I have not taken it out since. One time it fell out and was on a floor, and luckily, I noticed after some panic and recovered it before I left the room.
I love my wife. I have a coffee cup that says so, too. I am drinking out of that mug right now.
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Reflect and connect.
Have someone give you a kiss, and tell you that I love you, Mom.
I miss you so very much, Mom.
Talk to you tomorrow, Mom.
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- Days ago = 1293 days ago
- Bloggery committed by chris tower - 1901.17 - 10:10
NEW (written 1708.27) NOTE on time: I am now in the same time zone as Google! So, when I post at 10:10 a.m. PDT to coincide with the time of your death, Mom, I am now actually posting late, so it's really 1:10 p.m. EDT. But I will continue to use the time stamp of 10:10 a.m. to remember the time of your death, Mom. I know this only matters to me, and to you, Mom.
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