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The Promise
By Pearl S. Buck
OPEN ROAD INTEGRATED MEDIACopyright © 1948 Pearl S. Buck
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In their despair men must hope, when a promise is given, though it be only a promise. Thus, though his second son always shook his head when Ling Tan spoke of the promise, still the old man believed in it. The truth was that Ling Tan, as many did, believed the men of Ying and Mei to be the strongest and fiercest of all men on earth, and he and all others in this enemy-ridden land daily hoped that by some provocation the enemy would overstep themselves and enrage those foreigners across the sea and force them to come into the war, and thus bring an end to it. For, evil and strong as the enemy was, none believed even this enemy could conquer the foreigners, the hairy men of Ying and Mei.
Nor would Ling Tan listen to his sons when they told him that these foreigners were not so strong as they had once been. Thus in the city one day where Lao Er had gone to sell some salted duck eggs, he saw an enemy guardsman spit into the face of a foreigner, and the foreigner did no more than wipe it off with a white cloth he took out of his pocket.
"He keeps that white cloth in his pocket, doubtless," Lao Er said to his father when he came back, "and he keeps it just to wipe off enemy spittle from his face. All we who saw it were amazed, and a man who stood near me to sell his dumplings to those who passed said that he would never have believed it. He said that it used to be when a foreign man or even a foreign woman was given an insult, or so much as what they thought an insult, men with guns came down from foreign warships that lay always ready in the river."
"Where are those warships now?" Lao Ta asked. "There are only enemy warships in the river these days. And one day when I went into the city gate from the river side, I saw foreigners stopped even as we are stopped and their clothes taken off and their bodies searched by the enemy guardsmen, and they were as meek and helpless as we are, having no guns. Do not hope too much now, old father."
Thus his two sons begged Ling Tan lest he be too grieved for his own good when the promise the foreigners had made was not kept. But he still hoped, for where was there hope in any other place?
All through that evil autumn, though the skies were so tranquil and clear above the harvest fields, the times grew steadily worse. The village of Ling lived as though it were in the middle of a silent world. No news came in from the outside except such as could leak in by the whispers of men hastening through on plans of their own. From these Ling Tan and his sons heard that the war still went on in the free land. They heard, too, that though the capital of the country was moved far inland, even there the enemy went and sent down the great bombs which had torn up the earth near the village, a single bomb strong enough to make the large pond. That hole was full of water now, and on the day that Ling Tan heard how the inland capital was bombed he went and looked at the hole and thought to himself how it would be if great pits like that were dug into a city and what of the people? Even if they hid in the rocky hills, as it was said they did, could it go on forever? He was compelled the more to hope that from the world outside there might come help against this bitter enemy.
And again in the eighth month of that year Ling Tan and his sons heard that outside in the free land there was now war made on the enemy in five provinces at once, and this was the first time they heard of Lao San. The word came through a traveling priest, who said that all young and strong men were gathering together for that new war. Then he took out a paper from his gray robe, and in the paper was a piece of black hair that lay in a curl and he said, "This was given to me by the tallest young man I have ever seen, and he told me to go out of my way to pass this house and that you would give me food when you saw this piece of hair which he cut from his own head as he stood before me. He took his short sword and cut it off and gave it to me."
Now when Ling Sao heard the priest say this she cried out that this was surely her third son's hair who had gone away many days before this and with him some of the hill men whom he led.
"Whose hair curls like this except my third son's?" she cried. "I never saw any hair like it, and I always said it was because when he was in my womb I craved eels. Do you remember how I ate eels when I carried your third son, old man?"
"I do remember," Ling Tan said, "and when he was born we were all grieved at the way his hair was. It curled on his head, like eels, as you say, old woman. But it was too late then. And it has always grown out of him like that. Where did you say you saw him, good priest?"
"Near the city of Long Sands," the priest said.
"Was he in rags?" Ling Sao asked anxiously.
"No, he was in whole cloth," the priest said, "and he looked full fed and happy enough. But he was on the way to battle, as all young men were in those parts, for it is expected that the enemy is gathering itself for a new attack upon that city."
Ling Sao took the hair from the priest's hand and wrapped it in a bit of red paper that she had kept in a drawer of the table in her own room, and Ling Tan told the wife of his eldest son to prepare food for the priest, as much as he could eat, and then more to take with him. This the woman did, for she had become in this house a willing, faithful soul whom all called upon and she never said she was weary. Even the work that Jade once did this woman now took for her own duty and if Jade mentioned it, she laughed and said, "If you suckle those two boys of yours what else can be asked of you?" And it was true that Jade's twin sons were always hungry, and it seemed however much Jade ate and however she drank rice gruel mixed with red sugar and however she supped broths and ate eggs boiled in tea she could never turn the food fast enough into milk for those two thirsty boys at her breasts.
That day after the priest had gone, his belly swelled under his girdle with what he had eaten and his basket full of food for tomorrow, they all sat and wondered about the third son and whether he would be killed in the battle or not, and what would become of him.
It was not long after this that Jade had a letter and when she opened it she found it was written by Mayli, and it came from that province which is called Yünnan, or South of the Clouds, and it was from the city of Kunming. There Mayli had told Jade she would go, and there she was. It was a short letter, seemingly full of playful talk and yet it ended with this question, "How is it your husband's younger brother has not brought me back my little silk flag?"
Now none but Jade and Lao Er knew about that small silk flag or how Mayli had given it to Jade to give to Ling San as a sign that she was going to the free land if he cared to follow her. So now when Jade was reading the letter to them aloud as they sat in the sunshine in the court one day in the autumn of that year, she saw that question ahead and did not read it aloud to them, lest they press her with questions she could not answer. But afterward when she was in their own bedroom she told Lao Er about it and he smiled.
"He will be there one of these days," he said.
And so it was that something more than a month later there was another letter to Jade and this time Mayli said, "Tell your parents that their third son has come here to this city, and he has fought in the battle of Long Sands, and he is full of the great victory we won there against the enemy."
More than this Mayli did not say, but so much they all heard and were greatly cheered to know that somewhere there was a victory and that Lao San was alive. Only Ling Sao fretted because there was not more in the letter to tell her whether her third son and this Mayli were to be married or not. But no, there was not a word of marriage, not in this letter or another that came afterward, and Ling Sao grew angry and said:
"I wish I had that third son of mine here and I would jerk his ears! When did a son of mine ever go smelling around a woman when she was not his wife? If he is hungry for her, why does he not marry her? And she is worse than he is, to let him come near her, the bold daughter of a rotten mother—"
"Give over cursing, woman," Ling Tan said. "Why is it that women will curse each other so easily?"
"Perhaps she will not marry my brother," Lao Ta said. "You must remember, mother, that she is full of learning, and my brother does not know even his name on paper when he sees it."
But Ling Sao flung up her head at her son. "If she has her belly full of ink, she is not the woman for him anyway," she said, "and all the more he ought not to go near her."
By this time they were all laughing at her and she seized one of the twins from Jade's arms, and bore him away to comfort herself in the kitchen. For this woman could always be comforted by one of her grandsons. Her older children she could find fault with but the little ones were perfect in her eyes.
These were the small things of Ling Tan's house, and somehow the house went on, even though the countryside was under the heavy rule of the enemy. Somehow they got enough food out of the earth for themselves, and Lao Ta and Lao Er grew clever in ways of deceiving the enemy. Since he had married the woman he found one day in his trap, Lao Ta had ceased to set traps any more, for she loved him beyond all reason, and she would not have him risk his life. So she wept until she had made him come home and live in his father's house again, and till the fields, and be once more a decent farmer. Yet though this family seemed nothing but a common family such as in any country may be found upon the soil, they never for one moment gave up their hatred of the enemy nor their will that, when Heaven set the day, all the people, and they among them, would sweep the enemy into the sea.
To himself Ling Tan always said that the day would be that one when the men of Mei could be made so enraged that they, too, would join this war.
"On that day," he said to his sons one night, "when we hear that the men of Mei have come into this war on our side, we shall all be given strength to rise up and fall upon the enemy and drive them out. Each man in his place will rise and fall upon the enemy next him, even though he has only his bare hands to put at the enemy's throat, and then we shall all be free."
It was on a cool night at the end of that month when he said this—so cool that Ling Sao had bade her two sons move the table from the court and set it inside the main room, so that they could eat their night meal in warmth. There had not yet been frost, but she lifted her head and sniffed the night air before she shut the door.
"I smell winter tonight," she said.
"The fifth winter of this war," Ling Tan said gravely. "But next winter we shall be free again."
None spoke when he said this, not wanting to take away hope from him. He had come to believe too much in that day of his hope, plucking his belief out of the air, for there was still not one word of news from the outside world to tell him that the promise would be kept by the men of Mei and Ying. Even the random news they had been used to hearing from their old cousin who had lived in the city was now gone. For that old scholar had one night taken too much opium and had not waked again. The man who owned the poor room where he slept his life away found him dead the next morning, and was about to throw his frail body outside the city wall, for in these times the dead were not valuable as they once were. There were too many dead bodies in the streets each dawn, some starved and some diseased and some stabbed by who knows what dagger? Then the man saw that the dead one wore a good cotton vest under his ragged scholar's robe, and so he thought he would take the vest off for himself, and then he found tied to it with a bit of thread a command from the dead man. "Should I be found dead," the old scholar had written, "take my body to my wife who lives in the village of Ling outside the south wall of the city."
This the man had done, wishing a reward for it, and Ling Tan gave it to him, be sure. But what a day that had been, when at last the cousin's wife got back her old man! It was a day of mixed rage and sorrow, for she was so vexed that she could not mourn properly because however she scolded her old man could not hear her as he lay in the coffin Ling Tan gave him. It was Ling Sao's own coffin, for both Ling Tan and Ling Sao had their coffins ready in an outhouse, and this had been done in the summer when Ling Tan was sixty years old. It was a comfort to them both to know that should death come down upon them, unseen, their coffins were ready and waiting for sleep.
But now Ling Sao let the cousin's wife have hers. "I can get another the next time my sons go into the city," she said, "and let the old scholar's bones rest at last."
So they did as she said, and the cousin's wife wept and grew angry by turns. First she wept and moaned and then when she fell to thinking of those many months this old corpse had hidden himself in the city and how he had put all he earned into opium she grew angry and she stopped weeping and washed her face and combed her hair and cried out that she was glad he was dead, for he had been no use to her alive, and then she would remember that now indeed she was a widow and so she wept again, and all in all she made such commotion in the village that all were glad to have the old man under ground.
Once during the day before he was buried, Ling Tan looked down into the coffin and smiled. The old scholar, though wasted to his skeleton with opium, looked so peaceful that Ling Tan knew he was pleased as he lay there. He told Ling Sao that night, "I swear I believe the old rascal knows that he has the best of it because she cannot make him hear any more."
Still, after the dead scholar was under ground, there was no other way of knowing what was going on beyond the seas, and Ling Tan had now only the promise to hold to, for hope.
How then could he be ready for that most evil day which came down upon them from heaven? On that day the enemy took by surprise the men of Mei. They fell upon the foreign ships as they lay side by side in a foreign harbor, and they set fire to the airplanes, resting wing to wing upon the ground. And those who had the keeping of these ships of sea and cloud were sleeping or finding their pleasure on a day when all were idle. Be sure that the enemy made known everywhere their victory. They cried it upon the streets and it was written upon the walls in great letters, and voices took it over the land faster than the winds could carry it. So the news reached the village of Ling. It was a clear cool day, such a day as in better times Ling Tan would have cried out to Ling Sao to make him noodles of white wheat flour. He had smelled the frost at the door that morning and he looked out and saw it white on the threshing ground.
"If it were the real times," he said to her, "I would eat wheaten noodles today."
"There is only the same millet," she said, "but it is hot."
So he ate his hot millet and the day went as it always did, his sons busy with their tasks, and he sitting in the sun to smoke his water pipe. Then suddenly one came running toward the house. It was a young fellow, the son of a neighbor in the next village and he came to Ling Tan first. He was weeping as he ran, and Ling Tan shouted at him.
"What now? Can there be anything more than what has happened to us already?"
"There is worse and it has happened," the lad said, and then gasping and sobbing he told him. In the early morning of that day the enemy had fallen upon the ships and the airplanes of the people of Mei, thousands of miles across the sea, and had destroyed them utterly. The men of Mei were full of rage—but helpless.
Ling Tan sat, his water pipe in his hand and heard this black news. "I will not believe it," he said.
But his mouth went dry. For the young man went on with such a close story that Ling Tan saw it might have happened thus to a people unwatching. If the men of Mei were unmindful, it might have been so. And well he knew the cunning of this enemy. He called the young man in and before his sons he made him tell the story over again. Then he sent his sons for the other men in the village and they all came into Ling Tan's court, and once again the young man told his story. Each time it seemed more possible.
When it had been told for the third time, Ling Tan knocked the cold ash from his pipe which he had forgotten to smoke. Then he turned to Ling Sao.
"Get my bed ready," he said. "I must lie down, and I do not know whether I shall ever get up again."
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On April 6, a large propane tanker also overturned on the south end of the Hardy bypass. The truck, containing thousands of gallons of propane, made a left turn onto the bypass and overturned, sliding down the highway embankment.
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At the same time crews were cleaning up the tanker accident, another serious wreck occurred near FM 101 Road and the intersection of U.S. Highway 62/412.
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Bubbles, Bloodies or Black Coffee: All three. The coffee is Stumptown and served with fresh cream. The Bloodies are the most popular menu item according to the staff, but if you like yours spicy you will need to add your own tabletop Tabasco. The Mimosas here are impressive not for the quality (it's Cooks) but for the quantity, as they are served by the mutha'f'n pitcher ($20).
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Latte Macchiato - 3 Layered Coffee
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Sitting in a sunny street cafe, watching people passing by and sipping a good mug of coffee - do you like it as much as I do? Last summer I couldn't get enough of Latte Macchiato (blotchy milk), a wonderful milk coffee from Italy which is very popular in Europe right now. As it is very expensive in the street cafe, I tried to prepare it at home and succeeded. It is no fuss to make if you follow the instructions. Most important for the layered look is to pour the espresso slowly into the foamy milk. Make sure to use heavy glasses which won't break when filling in the hot liquids. Enjoy the summer feeling!
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- 2 cups milk (no fat-reduced product)
- 3 tablespoons instant espresso coffee powder, heaped
- Heat milk in the microwave or in a saucepan over medium-high heat (do not boil).
- In the meantime prepare instant espresso according to package direction.
- As soon as the milk is hot give it into a blender or food processor and blend on high for 40 seconds or until the milk has a velvety milk foam.
- Fill glasses up to 2/3 with milk foam.
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- After 1 minute the drink will divide in 3 layers which is very nice!
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Neymar inspires Brazil to thump U.S.
Updated: May 31, 2012, 2:56 AM ETAssociated Press
LANDOVER, Md. -- Brazil had its way with the U.S. soccer team, with the stars in the famous yellow jerseys dribbling past the Americans and generally pushing them around for the first half-hour.
Neymar had another dazzling night against the United States, scoring one goal and setting up two more to lead the five-time World Cup champions to a 4-1 victory in an exhibition Wednesday night.
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04.29.2016 | 21 Nisan, 5776
Hamas: 'There will be an explosion' unless Israel lifts Gaza blockade
Two Palestinian teens attempt to stab IDF soldier at West Bank checkpoint
Palestinians clash with IDF forces as Jewish worshipers visit Joseph's Tomb
Exclusive: Israeli envoy slams Austria's hosting of Palestinian hijacker terrorist
In Depth: ZAKA founder explains why Haredim entering the workforce is a Torah value
NYT: Israel denies waiting for Obama successor to strike defense aid deal
Bikini blunder?: Bar Refaeli swimsuit collection accused of copying $11 eBay design
Analysis: Are US, Israel winning or losing newest cyber battles
Gal-On endorses Berko to head key Knesset panel
Mimouna all night long
Katz: We can't count on US at UN
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ISRAELI OPERA Gounod: Romeo and Juliet TA Opera House, April 18
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J'lem wraps up first place and home court in postseason
Rajkovic suspended following Sakhnin brawl
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Your investments: Omer and building wealth
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Israel's economy: Reasons to be cheerful – and some for concern
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Fragile economy forces Iran's top leaders to form alliance
From petrol to pesco: ISIS turns to 'non-traditional' terror funding
Italy nabs four suspected in ISIS plot to attack Israeli embassy, Vatican
Five years on, Jordan grapples with Syrian refugee crisis
Analysis: The limits of the Iran-Russia alliance
Report: Iran looks to deploy Hamas in the battle to liberate Mosul from ISIS
South African president in Iran to develop ties
VIDEO: ISIS forces withdraw from strategic town under Assad's protection
Boston-area men charged in ISIS-inspired beheading plot against police
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Next year on Alpha Centauri: Stephen Hawking wishes friends 'Pesach Sameach'
How much money is the life of the world's richest Jew worth?
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Country feels heat, wildfires break out in Jerusalem, Galilee
Tech Talk: Start in Germany
Haifa and NY researchers collaborate on treatment for two deadly cancers
TA pub fined NIS 50,000 in anti-tobacco suit
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Nation celebrates spring festival at natural wonders
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TECH TALK: Women's Empowerment
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Trump, Clinton score early wins in Northeast states
Trump slams 'B-actor' with 'no mojo'
VIDEO: A 'Hassidic Jew' and 'devout Muslim' walk the streets of New York
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Grapevine: Finally, a family center
Just Torah: Passover: A means – not an end in itself
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Podcast: Is Bibi the worst option except all the rest?
Briefing: Bernie Sanders, Monica Lewinsky, and an uneventful cyber attack
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WATCH: Superman's got nothing on Israel!
Can you match the President to his opposing candidate?
Animals are just the best.
Can you solve this riddle?
Peace train building up steam
Hezbollah at a crossroad
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A year after quake, Israelis still helping Nepal recover
Necessary Stories: Grasping at the void
Trees for grandchildren
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Books: Seeing God's face
Books: Between tribalism and universalism
Hot off the Arab press
A musical journey back to the Holy Temple
Hello, goodbye Jerusalem
This week in Jerusalem
Seen by engagement
Turning the (Seder) tables
'Seas' the day
Worn out with your workout?
The secret of the lost color
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יוּמֵיְיק רִימֵיְיק
אִיתַי פִּנְקָס
הַצַלָמִים – יְרוּשָלַיִם בְּעֵינֵי צַלָמֶיהָ
Palestinian Christians slam PA for refusal to recognize Easter
Orthodox Christians mark Palm Sunday at Jerusalem church
Israeli brewery resurrects beer recipe from time of Jesus
A different Passover Seder
Eurovision Contestants Plant Trees in Israel
KKL-JNF and The Italian State Forestry Corps Sign a Memorandum
Cornerstone Ceremony for ANZAC Museum in Beersheba
The 19th Walk for Water: Touring the Desert, Loving Israel
A Tree Avenue for the Mashabim Air Force Base in the Negev
Greek President Plants Olive Tree in Jerusalem Grove of Nations
Italian Environment Minister Discovers Negev Agriculture
Kenyan President Plants an Olive Tree in Jerusalem
Italy-Israel Friendship Tree Planted in Italian Ambassador's Garden
Hugging a Tree? Beware of the Pine Processionary Caterpillar!
UN World Water Day 2016: Better Water, Better Jobs
International Forest Day 2016: Saying Thank You to the Trees
US Forestry Service Shares Remote Sensing Tech with Israel
JNF USA & Alexander Muss High School in Israel
Both Receive Charity Navigator's Highest Rating
First-Ever Birthright Israel Trip for Jewish Law Enforcement Announced
90 Year-old Giuditta Matalon Embraces the Children of Israel
Peonies and Pineapples in the Negev Desert
An Interview with Israel Prize Winner Prof. Yossi Katz
Arava Open Day 2016
The Acacia Tree Stars in the Arava Ecosystem
Bright September
Appeasement for Peace?
Just look at Miriam now
It's The Jews Fault, They Could Have Prevented WWII!....
Prime minister to Channel 1: I'll be running again in next election
Not all bleak for Netanyahu
China's moves: US decline, or balance in Asia?
Hanegbi heads to Myanmar for highest-level visit in 35 years
Former ambassador to the US Oren may enter politics on list Kahlon is drafting
MK calls on PM to destroy homes of Jews who murdered Arab teen
Netanyahu: Hamas leaders are legitimate targets, no one is invincible
Kahlon indicates comeback with new 'framework'
'Israel no better than Chelm for providing electricity to Palestinian companies that boycott it'
Manhattan borough president shows solidarity with Israel visit
Ministers and MKs urge Netanyahu to pound Hamas
Right-wing MKs call to investigate Balad party, ban it from Knesset after Qatar trip
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04/30/2012 01:55
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(photo credit:Marc Israel Sellem)
The Middle East might be thousands of miles away, but on Sunday New York became
the battleground for the Israeli-Iranian conflict as former top Israeli
government and security officials spoke out against the government's policies on
Iran.Former prime minister Ehud Olmert, former chief of staff Lt.- Gen.
(res.) Gabi Ashkenazi and former Mossad director Meir Dagan all said at The
Jerusalem Post Conference that Israel should not lead the campaign against Iran,
should not plan an attack in the near future and should instead try and improve
its working relationship with the Obama administration.Both Olmert and
Ashkenazi warned against a premature military strike, with the former prime
minister taking it a step further, questioning whether Israeli unilateral action
would even be effective in stopping Iran.
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Relations with my biological father have been much more than 'distasteful.' My mother divorced him when I was only two years old. After many years, my mother met and fell in love with a loving outdoorsman named Jim. I was only nine or ten years old when they decided to marry. My mother and I loved him very much, and he was much more of a true father to me than my biological father ever was. Unfortunately, precisely one week before their wedding, we found out that he had stage four terminal cancer, and was expected less than a month to live...
Well, that tough ol' fool lasted two whole years, giving a well deserved kick to destiny before he finally gave in. My mother held his hand as he was passing away on his deathbed, saying "I'm gonna hold your hand 'till Jesus takes it." until finally, Jesus did...
Now, my mother always told my stepfather that her most favorite of all dogs were beagles. So Jim as a farewell present, set up a secret arrangement with one of his friends, so that after he died, his friend would go to a beagle farm and get a beagle as a final farewell gift to my mother. He arrived, and we named him Mikey...
Years went by, and as many of you may know, little Mikey passed away just here in January...
He was incredibly sick. He had severe kidney desease, and his kidneys were about to fail. So after some great difficulty trying to console my mother, and convince her of it being the best thing, we drove him to the vet clinic in the next county to have him put down. However, one of the most profound experiences happened during the ride home. After leaving the vet clinic alone, the most beautiful sunset either of us have ever seen appeared in the sky. It was the first ever sunset that covered the entire sky, not just the western part of it. It had every type of cloud in it, and just about every color. It brought such a feeling of warmth to my mother and me, and lasted longer than most sunsets ever last. It lasted an entire car ride from one county to the next.
The next day, Mikey was buried in a pet cemetary by a man named Jim. He owns and maintains the pet cemetary. Mikey was buried under a large tree, what we discovered during his burial to be a honeysuckel tree. My stepfather Jim's favorite tree, and overall favorite scent, was that of the honeysuckel. It is by far the largest honeysuckel tree we've ever seen. As we were arriving at the cemetary to bury him, it was pouring down rain. Practically the exact moment we arrive at the cemetary, the rain completely stopped. The rain started up again the exact moment we left.
On our first return visit, on the first beautiful day, another strange and oddly beautiful thing happened. Out of no where, came the scent of the honeysuckel. It lasted several minutes before it completely disappeared. It is currently winter, and the honeysuckel tree is in complete hybernation. There is no way that the tree could have given off that scent. It literally seemed to have come from no where.
Essentially the point of my story is, God gave comfort to my grieving mother, his name was Mikey. Now, it's time I think for both of us, both me and my mother, to find comfort instead with God...
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"Blood, Guns and Whores – An All American Tale of a Boy and His Dog", is a coffee table novel made of micro chapters and illustrations about a boy growing up in the small farming community of Blissfield, Michigan and on to adulthood in San Francisco.
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14. To Show You The phone rang. Mom picked up the white plastic handpiece from the rotary, wall-mounted phone in the kitchen. "Hello, Hayes' residence...Well, hello Mrs. Labordee...oh...yes...I understand. We will be right over." She slowly hung up the white plastic handpiece onto the chrome receiver, not looking at me. "Walt, they found Boots." The fresh May air blew through the open window above the kitchen sink. Earlier in my sixth grade year during the weeks before New Year's Eve, it had been snowing off and on almost every day. It wasn't quite as bad as the blizzard of '77, not as much snow, but it lasted longer. Six weeks in a row we missed at least one day of school because of snow. Most of the weeks we missed two or more days, which I thought was great. Christmas break was day after day of being trapped indoors. Luckily, for Christmas I had gotten the book Juggling for the Complete Klutz. It explained how to juggle, using funny cartoons and simple steps. It came with three red and blue cloth juggling cubes filled with sand..."Perfect for the beginner...they don't roll across the room when you drop them."
"Put your elbows against your sides as if they were glued there and with your forearms sticking straight in front of you with your palms up..." When I got tired of picking the cubes up off the floor, I would go outside to explore the white drifts and frozen ditch. New Year's Eve day the snow was more than two feet deep on the ground outside of our old farmhouse. The snow had stopped falling the day before. The sky was so blue and clear without any sign of a cloud that it hurt my head to look into it for too long. The snow was even more intense to look at. The snow covering the ground was a white table top across the miles of open flat fields. The whiteness was so complete that it was like looking into an endlessly wide, bottomless pit filled with white. For miles it would continue, only broken by a miniature house or a patch of brown leafless trees in the distance. If I stood at the back of our yard long enough looking out over the field I could feel the white emptiness pulling me forward wanting to suck me into the void. It felt good. For the time being the snow had stopped, but the wind blew on and on. That is what really closed school; the wind blowing the snow across the roads dropping waves and waves of white snow, building drifts, piling up and blocking the roads. On school nights, I would go to bed buried under the layers of sheets, blankets, and homemade afghans my mother had knitted. I would rub my legs back and forth trying to warm the freezing sheets. We still didn't have heat upstairs. The old oil furnace lying on its side in the dirt-floor crawlspace under the house didn't have the power to get heat to the second floor where Rich and I slept. So my parents bought two long gray metal space heaters for us that plugged into the wall. They glowed red inside and smelled like hot paint. "Don't put anything close to the heater, it could catch fire." On those freezing nights, I would listen to the wind rattling the wooden framed windows of my dark bedroom and the clicking of the metal, red glowing heater as it turned on and off, expanding and contracting.
It didn't matter if it was snowing, as long as the wind blew hard and long enough school might be canceled. The thought of no school kept me warm as I fell asleep. On New Year's Eve there had been a 'Winter Advisory Warning' because of the cold and wind. What they basically said was, "Do not go outside. You will die." They reported the wind chill factor cutting over the flat farmland was hitting negative 80 degrees. In the Jack London anthology my uncle Doug gave me for Christmas that year, it said at negative 80 it was cold enough that your spit could freeze before hitting the ground. It never worked for me. And I tried a lot. I pursed my lips gathering spit in my mouth building up enough pressure to send it out beyond the snorkel of my fur lined parka wrapped around my face. Usually it just landed on my coat or chin stinging my skin. I wanted to see it freeze in mid air and shatter on the ground. That would be cool. But it just flipped to the ground and if I came back in a few minutes it would only be mostly frozen. That night Mom and Dad had their friends over for a New Years' Eve party. Kids weren't allowed. It was Rich's turn to feed Boots and put him in his pen for the night. "Hey Rich, it's getting dark. Put Boots in his pen." "I will." "Mom, it's getting dark. Make Rich put Boots in his pen" "Walt, I am sure it will be fine. He said he'll do it." The cold empty sky turned black as the sun faded behind the white emptiness of the fields that surrounded our old farmhouse. From the kitchen I watched as Rich walked into the small back room of our house wrapped in his parka. He opened the back door and snow blew around him and onto the floor. I heard a clatter of talking and laughter from the party in the living room. Ten minutes later the door opened again, snow blowing past Rich and onto the floor. "He won't come. I can't find him." "Go find him!"
"I tried. He won't come!" Rich took his parka and boots off then walked by me expressionless, not saying a word nor looking at me. I walked through the party in the living room and into the wide closet by the front door. I grabbed my parka with the furry fringe, my black snowmobile suit with the yellow stripe down the side, and my snowmobile gloves that zipped up the side and went halfway up my forearm. Then I reached into the cardboard box of hats and scarves sitting on the floor and pulled out my long blue and yellow striped, knitted scarf and my University of Michigan stocking cap. My parents' friends got quiet and looked at me as I walked back through the living room with everything stuffed in my arms. "Walt, what are you doing?" Dad asked. "Rich can't find Boots. I am going to get him." "Walt, it's after ten and pitch black out and very windy. The wind chill has really dropped since it got dark. You should wait till morning. I am sure he is fine. He's probably in a barn somewhere nice and warm. "I'm going to find him." I continued walking across the old green matted carpet of the living room. I could smell the cigarette smoke and the sickly sweet scent of my mom's 'famous Swedish meatballs' that everyone had on their white paper plates. The room was silent. Their heads turned following me as I kept walking on into the dining room towards the kitchen and the back door. Someone said something I couldn't hear and everyone laughed. The clatter of talking and laughter restarted. I stood outside in the driveway in front of the overgrown flower garden, now four feet below white crusty drifts.
Snow swirled and cut around the tall light on the thirty-foot telephone pole at the end of our driveway. It looked like a giant, buzzing ball of fireflies on the end of a stick stuck into the ground and surrounded by darkness. "BOOTS!" "BOOTS!" I started walking down the driveway weaving through the cars parked in line. Past the glow of the light, the wide white void was now a black wall. Wind blew down into the snorkeled hood of my parka already chilling my face as I stepped onto the slippery road. The icy snow hitting my clothes sounded like coarse sand being poured on a sheet of plastic. Within minutes I felt the cold creeping into my hands, then into my arms and chest. "BOOTS!" "BOOTS!" The wind howled around the house and barn as I walked past the edge of our property. Every time I lifted my head to yell snow and wind hit my face. It felt like needles tapping my skin. I walked down the middle of the road away from the protection of the house and barn. Now the wind cut straight across me, pushing me to the left. I walked closer to the ditch. "BOOTS!" "BOOTS!" Looking back behind me, the light at the end of our driveway was now just a glowing spot in the air. All I could hear was the wind whipping across the snorkeled hood of my parka and the snow tapping into my clothes. "BOOTS!" "BOOTS!"
As I breathed in, my nose and throat burned. It smelled like nothing and tasted like cold metallic blood. Where is he? I couldn't feel him anywhere near. I had seen him last just after lunch, jumping around the yard, chasing and biting at the bright wisps of snow blown by the wind. "BOOTS!" "BOOTS!" I stopped and stood with my arms hanging at my sides, feeling helpless and powerless. I was almost all the way to Wellsville Highway at the end of our mile-long road. The darkness around me was complete. The light glow of the snow covered road below my feet was all I could see. "BOOTS, WHERE ARE YOU!" My hands and feet now really were hurting from the cold. It felt like hundreds of needles were being pushed into them. Every step sent the needles in waves across and into my feet. I knew I was okay, because they hurt. If they stopped hurting I knew I was in trouble. Maybe I went the wrong way down the road. Maybe he went the other way. The wall of darkness around me felt so close and endless. I turned around, the wind pushing me to the right now and even closer to the ditch. The tiny glow of the light at the end of our driveway grew larger as I walked. "BOOTS!" "BOOTS!" In front of our house the window to the living room was a bright yellow with shadows moving and crossing inside. The front porch light turned on. "Walt, come in right now. It is almost midnight."
"I'll be right in." I kept walking, the wind pushing me to the right closer to the ditch. My foot sank deep into the snow. I had gotten too close and broke through the deep drift covering the slope of the ditch. I remembered the story my parents had told me about the Fischer's boy who one winter, years before, had fallen through the ice on the ditch. The next day they found him tangled in the culvert under the driveway of the church at the corner. I never figured out if they were telling me the truth or made it up to keep me out of the ditch. "BOOTS!" "BOOTS!" I no longer felt my hands. My feet hurt less. The wind doubled its effort, pushing the snow horizontal around me over the ditch and fields. "BOOTS, WHERE ARE YOU!" I went a hundred yards further and turned around. As I walked in the back door standing alone, I heard, "FIVE, FOUR, THREE, TWO, ONE. HAPPY NEW YEAR!" Mom and I drove down the dirt road. It was early afternoon. The May spring air still had a touch of cool wetness in it. I rolled my window halfway up. Large red tractors were plowing up the fields turning the gray flat hard crust into rolling, rich, dark brown earth ready to be planted. We pulled into the Labordees' driveway. Ms. Keel, my bus driver had married Mr. Labordee the year before. I followed Mom up the grayish wood steps and onto the porch that was as wide as the house itself. The front door creaked as it opened. There stood my bus driver and a gray haired large man behind her wearing worn coveralls. They looked at us smiling with their mouths, not their eyes. We walked in.
We stood next to the large rectangle dining room table covered with a thin, worn white cloth. A basket of plastic fruit sat in the middle of it. She handed me a ragged brown, red-speckled leather strip with rusty aluminum studs on it. "My husband found this two days ago in the ditch next to one of our fields." "Maybe it came off." "No, Walt." "How do you know? It might have fallen off. He might ...he might still be okay." "Walt, it looked like he got in a fight with a wild animal. I brought this back...to show you," the old farmer in the worn coveralls said.
"Blood, Guns and Whores – An All American Tale of a Boy and His Dog", is a coffee table novel made of micro chapters and illustrations about a boy growing up in the small farming community of Blissfield, Michigan and on to adulthood in San Francisco.
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'Treviso' Blazer
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An off-center zipper and triple flap pockets front a modernized blazer crafted of a mélange wool blend with slim notch lapels.
- Decorative three-button cuffs.
- Center vent.
- Approx. length from shoulder: 29".
- Wool/polyester; dry clean.
- By 7 Diamonds; imported.
- The Rail.
'Treviso' Blazer
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