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| The outer Grandpa |
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| left behind slipper |
I am going to start with a slipper which slipped out of the wellington boot rack yesterday. It belongs to the abracadabra girl. She is skipping about in Singapore and doesn't need it there, barefeet do the business there. So, it made me think about all the absent grandchildren and how the left behind grandparent thinks about them. Well, you may not know this hidden part of the Grandpa who loves his dogs and loves shouting at the television and is in every way a particular kind of Grandpa in the English mode. The hidden Grandpa comes out to the special garden hut where the bric a brac Buddha presides and before he meditates, he starts to sing!!! You didn't know that did you? And this is what he sings....May all be happy, may all be without disease, may all creatures have well-being and none be in misery of any sort... And he sings it in Sanskrit, he chants it beautifully. And together we meditate with that sound as the dedication. Then, out with the dogs for him, and over to the hens for me and we whisper to the hens that one day you will all be back so they shouldn't stop laying eggs. And we tell the dogs that you will all be back soon and will have tales to tell us about what you have been doing in your new lives, new schools, new skills and even a new baby have been added in to your lives.
Then everynight, we say all your names, one after the other, before we jump into bed. So, see the picture below of the Grandpa you don't always see and see how magic his meditation is...he even manages to turn Algie's eyes green.
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| WOW! |
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