Today, our sweet 16 year old Persian Lt. Mango left this world to move onto his next life. This post is dedicated to his roast-chicken eating memory.
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| May 11, 1995 - September 20, 2011 |
T h i n g s t h a t m a k e m e h a p p y . . .
1. Apples that are tangy, crisp and slightly sweet.
2. Sitting still and breathing
3.
4. Rubbing Mango's ear
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| Mr Fawlty, Mr. Fawlty...come quick |
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| Ears to Mango |
5. Skyping with our daughters for an hour and their
cats Nani and Olive. I particularly like when their
cat's noses rub against the screen.
cat's noses rub against the screen.
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| Cat Skyping |
6. Seeing Halle Berry’s photograph
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| Hello Halle |
7. The smell of rosemary-laced chicken cooking in the oven
8. Ella Fitzgerald scat singing
9. Things written on the street that makes you crazy or laugh
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| Are You Loco or Something? |
10. People who don’t set the table the way I do- like
they put the fork on the right.
11. Days that are packed with absolutely nothing to do
12. Vacuuming when I am trying to think about something
13. Realizing that I will never remember the words to any song- and it’s okay
14. Remembering when Fanny was 6 and put on my suit, cap and grabbed my briefcase.
15. Watching Ra El eat a raw kale salad
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| Suited for Improv |
16. Finding a penny when I am walking and thanking my grandfather
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| Thank you Pop |
17. Getting an email from my friend Jamie who will remind me of something we did 45 years ago that I forgot.
18. Sneezing
19. Sitting on my screened-in porch with Mango
20. Walking in the morning and enjoying the moment
21. Listening to my wife talk about orbs in photographs
22. Thinly sliced Parmigiana Regiano cheese and Prosecco
23. Not watching Fox News
24. Smelling my photo albums my grandfather made about me
25. Pure vanilla extract, cardamom and nutmeg
26. Getting to use the word bucolic in a sentence and
remembering why
remembering why
27. Knowing that dolphins are attracted to light and love
28. Any wine made with Nebbiolo grapes like Gattinara
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| Swimming with Ra El |
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| Yes please |
Haagen Dazs coffee ice cream
Bea's Candy Drawer
Bea's Candy Drawer
30. Giraffes
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| Sticking their neck out |
31. Hiking in a quiet woods or mountain range
32. A shady tree to read under at any beach in Hawaii
33. The funny things Fanny texts to me like,
“I swept the floor and found
“I swept the floor and found
enough bugs to start a kickball team”.
34. Mozart's opera The Magic Flute
35. Rubbing fresh herbs through my fingers and taking in their perfume
36. Watching Sarah relax
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| Sarah Chill Time |
37. My wife’s handwriting even though I often have trouble reading it
40. My brother’s obsession with Bruce Springsteen
41. Always carrying this moment in my heart and having
a photo to remember it
42. The sound my phone makes when I get a text from my daughter
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| Is Bruce a Mitch fan too? You bet! |
a photo to remember it
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| Getting ready to go to Wrightsville Beach around August 1992 |
43. Our family whistle we have always used to call our cats
44. Snow falling when I am home and having everything I need to make vegetable soup from scratch
45. Knowing Fanny was born under the sign of beer
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| Fanny's Chill Time |
46. Growing my beard and then shaving it off
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| Hair today, gone tomorrow |
47. Memories of my Grandma Fannie’s sour cream coffee cake with the crunchy brown sugar topping
48. Bad puns that actually make my family laugh
49. Forgiving people who make mistakes
50. Making stuffed cabbage
The making of stuff cabbage - - - A short video
51. Watching the joy my sister Diane and brother-in-law Jerry have as grandparents
52. Slowly drinking my coffee in the morning so I can appreciate the flavor
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| Big Jer, Di Di, Henry & Juliet |
53. Not owning a swimming pool
54. The aroma from a zest of a lemon on my fingers
55. Telling people that my 84 year old mother uses email, reads my blogs, posts to Facebook and has a Kindle
56. Finding signs that remind me that change is inevitable
57. The color yellow
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| Ch, Ch, Changes |
57. The color yellow
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| I'm just wild about yellow |
Farewell Lt. Mango. I will always love you and you will always be one of my favorite things from this lifetime.
Meow.
Meow.
if my phone was fancy enough to set a special text sound for different people, i would set a toaster "DING!" for when yours pop up. ps. #13 was my favorite.
ReplyDelete"Bucolic" has always been one of MY favorite words, too. For a long time I thought it meant someone who is addicted to pirates.
ReplyDeleteThis was the second of your blogs I've read since discovering them on the Springfield website...thanks for a "feel good" experience.
You have a simply written and beautifully designed blog. It's the first time I've seen it, but I'm sure your loyal readers get a lot out of it. Sorry about Mango. Thanks for the Moments of Zen Jack Goldenberg
ReplyDelete“Slowly, but very deliberately, the brooding edifice of seduction, creaking and incongruous, came into being, a vast Heath Robinson mechanism, dually controlled by them and lumbering gloomily down vistas of triteness. With a sort of heavy-fisted dexterity the mutually adapted emotions of each of them became synchronized, until the unavoidable anti-climax was at hand.”
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