NuNu Love

7:30. After I packed everyone's lunches, 

I rushed to get changed for school.

In the time it took me to change, 

she slipped her smiley "I heart you" 

into my lunchbox.

When I got home at 4:30, she grabbed me

asking, "Did you find it? Did you see it?"

She said she kept giggling at school 

thinking about that note to me. 

Me too.

_

I'm with the Band

In too much of a hurry 

to smile for me/the camera 

before he sets off to saxophone it in.

(And I watch over his shoulder.)

Give us this day our daily produce

Smiling at all the fruit and veg in my office today. 

I didn't accept the tomatoes 

'cos we have lots of them fruiting at home.

The apple is my favorite

it makes me feel like a real teacher.

_

Amanda, Michelle, Gina

They're saying the man who kept the three girls imprisoned in Cleveland committed suicide. I wonder if after being imprisoned himself, he realized what a horrible thing he'd done and offed himself out of remorse.

Far away from everything related, even I have nightmares about the whole thing. In one, I was crouched on the floor at the grocery store for something on a low shelf and overheard someone calculating aloud how big a cage to contain me would have to be.

If the nightmares ever subside, I'll get to smile at my friend J Castro's disgusted FB update when the news broke: "After years of being asked if I was related to Fidel, now this."

Yes; I was in Cleveland over the weekend. No; I had nothing to do with it.

God.

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Dancing the Night Away

Kavitha-Neil's Wedding/

Last party of the summer vacation

Weekend with Grandparents Portrait (2)

With Maama-Thatha

Horseshoe Park, Cleveland

Weekend with Grandparents Portrait (1)

 Martinez Family Picnic
Salt River Park, Shepherd