My Computer Knows

My computer
knows when I’m
thinking of you.

I’ll be describing
something shiny
I’m selling on eBay

like china

or magic
shoes

when I’ll hear
your laugh here

and my
computer

will start
tossing its
wild mane,

rattling its
brass medallions,
and pawing at the
ground to spring
free onto some
forested trail.

other times
my computer
crackles like

a campfire,
shooting emails to
you all on its own

then
stills
itself

like a
lake after
a storm,

ears perked
and listening
for the silence
of your heart.

your heart
as pure and
as beautiful

as an
empty
church

or a
cloud
ship

sailing
on the
wind.

~~ end of poem for DVerse poets Open Link Tuesday.

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St. John’s Episcopal Detroit photo credit.

Wherein…

last autumn
in front of God
and the whole
Sunday morning
congregation

when he was
not quite six,

my nephew responded
to questions about
rules for our lives
during Childrens’ Story,

in his clear expressive voice…

“In our house
there is no hitting,
kicking or biting,

and I know
the “F-word”
but I never say it.

(Fiction? Nope.)

🙂

~~ Take it to The G-Man if your 55 wants to come alive.

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P.S. That’s the church I grew up in.

Had 12 years Perfect Attendance at Sunday School there — hard to believe, eh?  🙂

Mom & Dad were married 54 years last month!

P.P.S.

My sister (awesome person!) made that card.  The girl at the top is my niece. She just entered high school.

In Canada.

Canada rocks!!!

You rock too.

Happy Friday.

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Fun I Had The Summer I Was Eleven

I found inspiring places to work on my flexibility, like the Texas State Capitol

and the Corpus Christi aquarium.

Aquariums are also great places to work on splits,

as are hotel pools,

and the beach.

Speaking of the beach, I made like a seagull there.

Dad LOVES the beach.

And I love Dad!!

I drove the harbor ferry in Corpus!

Well not really, but I toured the wheelhouse, enjoyed a cruise,

then lunched aboard a restaurant yacht.

Met a happy parrot that day too.

Back at home I met ducks

and iPhone video-chatted with my gym-mate.

LOVED the gymnastics pool party!!

I like how as the gracious hostess was taking that, Mom was catching us from behind…

The hosts’ daughter is a talented gymnast too.

Olympics, here we all come!!!

I could do it — I’ll be 18 summer of 2020.

Or I could go the college gymnastics route, where I’ll study art, design, photography, writing, and film-making.

We’ll see. My goal is to see just how far I can go with gymnastics.

What else this summer?

Hung out with E.

Got my groove on with S.

Yes, that’s a big bass and I’m very small for my age — 3rd percentile on both height and weight.

And absolutely PERFECT for me!!

Tomorrow I’ll be back in school — 7th grade.

[edit, and my mom is awesome!!!!!]

love,

Kelly Funster.

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P.S. Mom is heading into her busiest 4 to 6 weeks of the year, and will be blogging even less than her already-light schedule of late.

And… she thinks YOU are awesome!!

(Yes, those are Mom’s toes in the last photo. She’s really weird, as you know.)

Kelly’s Newest Balance Beam Skills

I’m not sure if these are basic skills for Level 6 or 7, ’cause I’m kind of a gymnastics newbie, learning as I go.

Whatever level, she’s doing AWESOMELY — as you can see!! Only 18 months ago she was a Level 4.

Notice she lands her back handspring with both feet at once? She tells me that’s a “double down” landing. Cool!

At the gym she is known to stick all these on the high beam!

I can’t wait to see her new amazingness on vault, floor and bars too, and when I do… you’ll get more video, whooohoooo.

Hope you enjoyed watching and….. Vive Les Gymnastiques! [CORRECTION, thanks to Happiness Best Savored Hot … Vive LA Gymnastique! Merci beaucoup!! And Laissez Les Bons Temps Rouler.]

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Some Of What I’ve Been Up To Since I Last Posted

Enjoying our scrapbooking gymnast.

Enjoying my new desk. I kept me a Capodimonte mug!

Enjoying The Gymnast’s ’round-the-block steering lessons.

Enjoying choosing and mailing a birthday present to my sister.

Enjoying posing a Carlsbad Caverns paperweight with a sleeping KitKat.

Enjoying the Monet print Jim got at a yard sale for FOUR DOLLARS, FRAMED!!!! That’s Mah Man!!

My man on the move — always full of surprises. 🙂

What do you think those 2 by the sea are saying, Sara? Or anyone?

Enjoying our ‘keets, Sunny & Angel. Unfortunately, Chico (the blue one who replaced Timmy) shot out past my hand a few weeks ago at feeding time, executed two backyard high loop-de-loops, soared over the treetops, and I’ve not seen him since. 🙁

Hopefully he and Timmy are out there having fun together! 🙂

Enjoying friends. Tracy Funster & Mardi Funster.

They rock!

And they jazz. And they blues.

Enjoying photography experimentation with mid-century glass.

Enjoying going through my old iPhone song idea clips. Could a song about buttocks be coming one day to a theater near you??! I think so!! 🙂 🙂 🙂

The chorus goes like this…

Everybody’s buttocks are beautiful,
No matter the shape or size.
Everybody’s buttocks are beautiful…
in God’s eyes!!

Enjoying seeing and hearing about The Gymnast’s improvement on the apparati.

Enjoying hearing the same about her team mates.

(I love how her pose mirrors the iron tree behind her in that pic!) I swear it was not planned. 🙂

Enjoying selling stuff on eBay.

Postie comes right up our walkway when I schedule a package pick-up, whoohooo!!

Posties Rock! Especially a certain poetic one I like.

And here’s a photo from this morning…

Track at 7:00 a.m. — part of summer gymnastics.

Team trains 35 hours a week during summer, what a rockin’ gym!!

Monday to Friday mornings we’re either at track or the gym by 7:00. (And up at 6:00.) Oy. 🙂

2 of the 35 hours are ballet, where she and her team-mates dress up all matchingly cute.

So…

I didn’t mean to go almost a whole month without posting, but you know how it goes sometimes.

Life’s been calling.

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P.S. Most of these pix are a bit fuzzy ’cause my good camera broke. 🙁

But you know what? Take pictures when inspired, no matter your camera quality! These are the moments of our love.

Now… I’m off to drink some wine!!

🙂