WAKENED

One minute past 1 a.m.Sunday September 6th 2020 Window View Photo taken at 7:30 p.m. Saturday September 5th

Wakened suddenly at midnight. Why? Just because. So I'm Listening to poetry-Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “I Am Waiting” from A Coney Island of the Mind.

Saturday evening I had a brief and cordial conversation with my nephew, assuring him thatI'm fine and asking after his well being, sending hugs to my Sister in law, his mother. I've seen nothing of either of them since my brothers wake last year in December. His Mass Card sat with other departed ones on the main altar at my zendo for 49 days-a comfort to me having the Sangha to share my loss with.

OLD PHOTOGRAPHS

I've been going through them looking for some to post for 'Throw-Back Thursdays" on face book.  Here's my first 'boyfriend' in Yonkers early in the forties!

Gosh how I loved my 'Nana' Slater

and Aunt Pauline

and Nana's 'Cabin' in the Catskill mountains

where I spent many joyful Summer weeks

 

 and I loved the neighbor girls pony

and my cousin 'Frannie' Weckerle

 whom I idolized

 

Stars of my childhood are long gone

Looking at them now,

I feel that feeling of being loved

 

Teenage years were fraught with angst,

but I was loved then too.

Now I can love the girl I was.  I understand her.

I've accepted and forgiven her ignorance.

Understanding will do that.

It just takes time.

Maybe more of this in another post.

THE GRADUATE

My  Nephew
Dennis Michael Slater

Graduated from Fordham Law School last Sunday.
 His primary interest is Constitutional Law. 
This Summer he will focus on passing the bar.
In September he's off to Colorado to begin
a federal judicial clerkship.  Wow!

Proud Parents

Rosa and William James Slater

Celebration at Tao Restaurant

under the watchful presence of a giant

Buddha 

Four Good Friends
Kevin Kitson, Sean Engel, Dan Laishley, Jon Morvay

Dennis
with Nora O'Sullivan

Maria and Max Llaque
Rosa's Sister

Leonor and Ricardo Correa,
Rosa's Brother

After appetizers, several main courses and a champagne toast
The Icing on The Cake

May the future lead him onward to further happy fulfillment

"May the road rise to meet you,
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
The rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of his hand."

"Go n-éirí an bóthar leat.
Go raibh an chóir ghaoithe i gcónaí leat.
Go dtaitní an ghrian go bog bláth ar do chlár éadain,
go gcuire an bháisteach go bog mín ar do ghoirt.
Agus go gcasfar le chéile sinn arís,
go gcoinní Dia i mbosa a láimhe thú."
 

May the force be with him always!