MEMO 273 - 09-30-09

Memo! For the longest time, I thought my grandson was working on some new infant form of interoffice communications as he began uttering his first words and toddling from place to place within the confines of his neoprene play fence.  I searched and searched for the actual reference until, one day, as we were catching passing glimpses from the television, a little red furry creature with an orange proboscis appeared, emanating from the phenomenal Jim Henson Muppeteers – ELMO!!  Now why did I not think of that?  Elmo – Memo – seems logical enough now!  This most loveable of puppets is brought to life by the skillful artistry of Kevin Clash, the falsetto-voiced manipulator of ELMO!  It happened purely by accident, as most truly creative endeavors do, after several of the Sesame Street cast members found the little crimson guy laying around the set and made all kinds of attempts to enliven our special friend.  Making his first actual appearance on Sesame Street around 1972, he was first known just as ‘Baby Monster’.  It was not until the talented Mr. Clash slipped his arm under the fabric of the lifeless form in 1985 that Elmo was born, and from that time until now has referred to himself perpetually in the third person followed by an accompanying hahaha.  Along with his pet goldfish, Dorothy, Elmo is a mainstay at the Larrison household, garnering more individual screen time with our grandson that all other TV personalities combined, and that includes a cutesy purple dinosaur as well.  Having evolved from Memo to Melmo to Emmo, our ruddy friend has finally managed his accurate moniker to Isaac, spoken with all the affection and love that a nearly two-year-old may utter – Elmo!

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A ROSE 262-272 09-19-09

Have you ever noticed how there are just certain times when, for no really apparent reason, you simply just find yourself in a hole – a deep hole?  How did I get here?  Why did I not see this coming and do something to avoid it?  It has happened to all of us at one time or another.  What shall be our response?  Now that things have overtaken me, how will I ever catch up?  With this conundrum collection, it is inevitable that stress and anxiety swell within which then adds even more to the problem.  This is where I find myself today.  A quick perusal of my blog posting reveals that I am now twelve, yes, count them, twelve blogs behind.  What shall I do?  Where will I find twelve topics to develop, especially given the challenge from my brother to find something positive to write about – it really should not be such a difficult thing, given that I have two-hundred-sixty-one behind me already, should it?  But then, how shall I find the wherewithal to produce these missive miniatures in a timely manner without falling even further behind?  You write two and post them, but if it takes three days before you can get back again, you are one more behind and how do you diffuse that pressure?  It suddenly came to me as if in a dream (actually an outgrowth of a nightmare that transformed itself within my mind) – I will write a single blog that counts for ten – my title was simple – 262-272 – there you have it!!!  One page of questions that have permeated my overtaxed brain reducing the entire stress-producing chain of mindless babble into one, concise, easy-to-read-and-identify-with solution to any blogger’s needed weapons in the armory cache of writing.  A single catch-up blog that puts me right back on track without the anguish and rigors of actually writing ten individual blogs, I just compact the timeline into a ten-fold single blog, that simple.  When I first researched, last December, what a blog was, I found it was whatever the author said it was – the author is in control.  Some authors blog only once each week or each month as it may be.  I simply choose in one fell swoop of the laptop to make ten from one – my biggest challenge, what picture to use – I decided upon a single rose, so I can STOP and smell it!!  There!!  Now I am completely up to date!

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