Special Moments

For those of you who may not know, I (Elaine) am living in boy land over here on 6th Ct South with Ryan inhabiting our house until his nuptials in May and Dwight, Eli, Paul (the person), and Andrew 3 houses down. It's pretty great, especially when I catch special "boy" moments on tape when they don't know their being filmed.

Exhibit A: First of all, how great it Paul the dog? Second, listen carefully to what Ryan says when he walks in to the kitchen towards the end.


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Exhibit B: We were originally going to film Ryan playing the accordion, and Dwight randomly barged into our house. Notice his special way of greeting Paul (the dog). Bingo! Dinglehopper!


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Saw this. Liked it. Wanted to share.

The Awful Rowing toward God
by anne sexton

i'm mooring my rowboat
at the dock of the island called God.
this dock is made in the shape of a fish
and there are many different boats moored
at many different docks. . .

"on with it!" he says and thus
we squat on the rocks by the sea
and play--can it be true--
a game of poker.
he calls me.
i win because i hold a royal straight flush.
he wins because he holds five aces.
a wild card had been announced
but i had not heard it
being in such a state of awe
when he took out the cards and dealt.
as he plunks down his five aces
and i sit grinning at my royal flush,
he starts to laugh,
the laughter rolling like a hoop out of his mouth
and into mine,
and such laughter that he doubles right over me
laughing a rejoice-chorus at our two triumphs.
then i laugh, the fishy dock laughs,
the sea laughs. the island laughs.
the absurd laughs.

dearest dealer,
i with my royal straight flush,
love you so for your wild card,
that untamable, eternal, gut-driven ha ha
and lucky love