Three Wise Monkeys




Memories of my grandmother are forever emblazoned on my mind of her doing "the monkey" - as I mentioned before - the noise and face- entertaining us as kids.  Scratching her head and armpit.  Sitting in her recliner - the big, soft, comfy recliner.  With the remote, because you always had to mute the commercials, and sometimes you had to rest your eyes (but you were not sleeping).  Making us smile.  I have not been able to forget that image - and today - it brings me back to these pictures, which I came across as I was pruning my digital photo albums.  (Digital photography has really maybe provided too many pictures - to the lay photographer at least.  Oh, I don't know.  I just think we spend too much time trying to capture the perfect moment instead of just snapping a picture of the moment and then living it completely.  There is something to having just that one photo, blurry, slightly out of focus or in motion - off centered - and just knowing and telling a story around that one photo).

I have never bothered to really read about the monkeys, but I did recently read they have individual names - at least according to my amazingly in depth and sustained internet inquiry (i.e. Wikipedia).

See No Evil - Mizaru
Hear No Evil - Kikazaru
Speak No Evil - Iwazaru

So I think sometimes maybe I'll just post a blog of pictures that are tangentially related to the reading or memories.  It's not an edit - just a "hey, I was looking at these pictures and realized I had them."  Still currently focused on reading Vonnegut, but I want to write every day and try and post something regularly.  New pictures.  Old pictures.



It is a joy, when you can convince friends to pose with you after running 200 miles  -  


It is another joy entirely to meet complete strangers at a wedding in a photo-booth and convince them to do the same thing.  

When I find my grandmas photo - which is somewhere - I can post that too.  




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