Panda's First Smile

Panda's First Smile
PandaPig's First Smile!

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Dedicated to the Original PandaPig, my first love...

This is PandaPig, who sat on the floor of Hohl Grain and Feed on Railroad Street so many years ago...
someone had just dumped him there, hair matted and filthy, full of mites, neglected, unloved, unwanted.

Nobody would've bought him. He just sat, unmoving, alone in his small cage, a prison, actually -knowing that nobody would've bought him and the people who first did couldn't care less about
him. Maybe never did. His ears were infested with mites, too, he'd been neglected so long.

He caught mom's eye, so pathetic, sad, yet a smile lurked inside somewhere...

Took him home. Chai, the Bengal Cat became his first best friend. When Chai had to move to Seattle,
I came along and PandaPig became my first best friend.

Whatever happens with our art, our attempt to finance the guinea pig sanctuary with it...and to educate
people so they know enough about us guinea pigs to only get us if they are willing to love us forever because we are far more work that might first appear...

It's all for love, for love of PandaPig, mom's first true love. And mine.

We miss you, PandaPig, we miss you every day. You were my first love, too.

love,
YumYum
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Retired Schoolteacher...


...You know who you are.
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Let it Roll, Let it Go, Let it Blossom, Let it Go...thanks Eric (Slowhand)

New Beginnings, from an Old Place we barely remember...so deeply Within did it sleep.

Once Upon A Time, there was a little girl with a guinea pig named "Puff" after "Puff the Magic Dragon" and she is no longer young...just still loves drawing, music, and guinea pigs. And mountains.
Dreams of a better life...less pain. More dancing. Maybe new drums. Maybe not new drums...

A fire of Joy once Burned Brightly, so long ago. We sort of remember, but not really...is this a dream?
Or has it been rekindled "Knocking on Heaven's Door"...What next?
Stop asking: What Next.
Learn what the Moment wants to Gift us. That's why they call it "The Present."
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Houston, We Have LESS of a Problem...



"Layla" whoever you are: thank you. She finally got started...
and special  SHOUT OUT to MariFUN, our wedding planner.
(She must be Layla!)
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CALLING ALL ERICS!


WHO IS "LAYLA" AND WHY DOES MOM GO CRAZY WHEN SHE HEARS IT?





CLAPTON TO BLEHM:   MATE, DON'T THINK THAT'S AN AIR GUITAR...LOOKS LIKE A BABY TO ME...JUST SAYIN'...

"BELLBOTTOM BLUES MAKIN' US ALL CRY!"
We are all suffering here. Mom cannot wake up and focus on organizing 15 years of art for the gallery...
TOMORROW! When coffee didn't work she turned to Eric, as always. Eric is always there for her. Ya, she was a rocker back in the day, a drummer, so now we are napping to Clapton, Cream, Blind Faith...nice lullabies. Nice mom.
She even playin' air drums...
Which we wouldn't mind.
Except one block a way is a music store.
They sell real drumsticks.
They also sell real drums.
One minute planning a guinea pig wedding, now...
DRUMS, mom? Seriously?
At this point we'll take any Eric we can find!
for we may be doomed...

p.s. who The Who? should we worry?
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WHAT GOIN' ON?


Why our apartment so messy? Mom says: "This is for you, my darling Pigulas" but she doesn't let us roam and rummage through the mess uncovering savory photographs, drawings, and things to nibble, so we doubt her declarations of self-righteous justification...the woman simply don't do no housework; but in the past has always allowed us to "help" with our discriminating palates.
Now, she says, "just you wait to see the treats we gonna have at the Big Wedding,
Calvin the small:  Gonna be good enough to make you BIG!"

To which I whisper under my barrel-shaped snout: "boo-YA!"
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WEDDING GONNA BE WHERE?







...A bedroom, living room, kitchen, or space of any kind for our wedding, we'll just book someplace artists don't live.
Would someone (MariFUN) please send mom an invitation? Thank you.
She don't need a bedroom, living room, or kitchen either...she can sleep on our owly rug in the Runabout Playpen.
ART! WE GONNA EAT IT AT OUR RECEPTION, RIGHT MARIFAN?

Marifan?
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