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A mini whanau update first:
Regular readers will know that I sometimes use the expression, "you've got to take the crunchy with the smooth". On a similar theme is, "sometimes you eat the bear, sometimes the bear eats you". The Arabic version of all of that is, "Yawm 'asal wa yawm basal - one day honey, one day onions".
Our heart went out to Adam and his girlfriend when we learnt that they came home yesterday to find their house had been burgled.
All his computer gear which he uses to compose his music was gone, as were clothes and other items. Definitely eaten by the bear with crunchy onions thrown in.
On an (literally) upbeat note, Adam had only just released his third Bambino collection called 20 Days, 20 Acapellas.
He has written some stunning music to go with some classic rappers. You can download your very own copy at http://bambino1.bandcamp.com/album/20-days-20-acapellas-2011
and then write a comment on this blog to tell him what a stunner he is!
One of his sisters - Fanfa, on the other hand, was oblivious to this as she landed in San Francisco to begin her latest American adventure with Jesse and his extended family.
Over to her:
So now i am here, sitting in the sunshine writing you this email. The weather is beautiful, the ocean sounds amazing and i have no studies to worry about= heaven. I'm currently at Mike and Karin's house- looking for a place to live online. There are a lot of cool places, but a lot of competition. House prices are high so everybody is looking to rent. Jesse it doing great, he is at work at the moment (hanging Christmas lights for big companies and rich people- he loves it).Definitely eating the bear with a smooth honey marinade.
I have used the blog since day 1 to address important events. When the calendar rolls around to November 4 I get a little more introspective than usual.
My mother (Dulcie Mary Purdy) passed away on November 4, 1983. She had battled with breast cancer for five years before that and was finally released from her suffering.
At the time I was living in New Plymouth, flatting with two girls - Anne and Moira. I'd been in New Plymouth since the start of the year because I'd started work at New Plymouth Boys' High School. My first English teaching job.
On February 26, 1983 I met a girl called Jacqueline Smith. I met Jacky (a.k.a. SWMBO, a.k.a. Umm Keegan) at a fancy dress party amid celestial choirs, cupid's darts of love, blinding light, and other cosmic revelations.
We started spending time together and started getting to know each other's families along the way. F'rinstance, I flew down to Invercargill to meet her mum, Pat, and the Southland branch of Jacky's family.
I had also taken Jacky to meet mum and dad in Auckland.
By November of that year it was clear that mum's cancer was taking a big toll.
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| Mum, me, Deedoo, Ross, Grandma |
I got the call from her doctor the week before she died.
The school was very good about giving me leave and Jacky and I travelled north.
Mum had been hospitalised at the Mater Hospital and I will never ever forget the stairwell and the walk to her room each time we went to see her.
I will never forget the last time I saw her and said goodbye and went spinning from her room into an unknown world that didn't include her.
The school was very good about giving me leave and Jacky and I travelled north.
Mum had been hospitalised at the Mater Hospital and I will never ever forget the stairwell and the walk to her room each time we went to see her.
I will never forget the last time I saw her and said goodbye and went spinning from her room into an unknown world that didn't include her.
She was my buddy and had been around for my first 26 years.
The serene and beautiful Jacky has been around for the last 28 years. I would say I have doubly blessed.
The serene and beautiful Jacky has been around for the last 28 years. I would say I have doubly blessed.
It was very fitting that I've just watched an episode of Grey's Anatomy where the Cristina Yang character says this to her patient's child:
If your mum dies you feel a lot of things. First you'll feel like you could have done more to help her but it's not true. You did everything you could. Won't feel that way but...let me tell you this - you did everything you could. And it'll hurt every time you think of her. But over time it will hurt less and less and eventually you'll remember her and it'll only hurt a little.They certainly got that right - there will never be a time that it doesn't hurt!
Love and peace mum - Warren
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