2000-02-27 - 08:21:27

guess i should have read the diaryland news before i

started out to post this morning. they say it is o.k.

now. so it's a rum go, but i don't get paid.

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words of significance move me, whether poetry or

prose. maya angelou's poetry moves me and her, "i know

why the caged bird sings is equally moving..........of

course that is one author amongst many, many others. i

saw an anonymous quote stating, "poet ry is powerful

emotion recollected in tranquillity." sure works for me.

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the denver mint started minting the "Sacagawea"

dollar the other day, i can' wait to get one for a pocket

piece as well as a few to stash away. could be good.

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i remember, a year or two ago the u.s. came out with

a triangular stamp, the first triangle stamp ever issued

by our country. it was issued to commemorate some

collectors exposition, i think in san francisco. wow,

as a kid i snapped up triangle stamps from any country

which printed them, i thought they were so neat and still

do as they are unique. so now we have one to save.

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my wife has improved and is much better today, i

hope that is a lasting thing, rather than a recurring

one. last week, besides taking her to the clinic

several times, i spent a lot of laborious time, doing

clumsily the things she does quickly and easily. a man i

think begins to realize what a woman does and can do.

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my memory just, like a toaster, popped one up.

when we lived in the tampa, florida area some of our kids

had arrived at the brownie scout and cub scout age.

there was no close place to take the kids to and my wife

was persuaded to become a den mother, and she did well.

then our oldest boy hit the age of webelos and i became

the webelos den dad. the wife took our oldest girl into

a brownie troop, and i became the first man to be

scoutmaster to a troop formed from our cubs. the wife

was very active in many aspects of girl scouting, while i

had boys that i had seen come from cubbing into explorer

age. they were such timid, unsure little lads, knowing

that they had no coping skills other than run to mother.

it was such a grand experience to watch them mature into

confident, knowledgeable young men able to handle them

selves well under most any condition with panache and in

an ethical manner. memories, we have the good ones,

while the bad ones stick to the botton and don't rise.

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as i am aka bastion, my dear wife will be aka

heather. she wouldn't let me hang that name on our last

daughter and would have a fit if she knew this. i just

can't give an impersonal part as "wife" she's more.

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oops, diaryland is still down. but i am going to save

this on the monitor until they squeegee the mess off the

barn floor and accept my posting. durn, durn, durn

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this is the fourth or fifth time that my posting has

been refused by "technical difficulties" with diaryland -

- - whether that is a webtv cop out or the news release

from diaryland that they were up and running o.k. was

premature ? ? ? ? ? ?

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