Thursday, June 19, 2014

Letter to Julia 20140619

In the name of Allah, most Gracious, most Merciful.

Hi there, my beloved Julia and Erin.  How are you feeling today, my darlings?  I pray you are feeling great.  You are the light of my life, and I love you, I love you with all my heart.  And I need you, I need you.  I'm still working on breaking down that old mango tree at Casa de Julia inshaAllah.  That old tree was hanging over the road to the elementary school, and its branches were brushing against vehicles, and it was dropping fruit on the road and in the storm drain.  It's still crawling with army ants.  It's a bigger tree than I thought, plus I had a whole stack of useless coconuts to burn, so I'm not done yet.  Then I have to cut grass.  Gah.  It's like a full time job tending the yard there, and I have to spend time and energy doing other things.  Like music.  Right now, I'm learning new songs for to add to my Chick Singer set.  Let's see... "Snowbird", "You're My World", "Touch Me In The Morning", "Georgy Girl", "Those Were The Days", "Reach Out And Touch", and "Marlene On The Wall".  Yeah, I like the old songs.  I  think neither one of your moms were born when "You're My World" first came out.  Well, neither was I.

Life is like the rain: it makes the trees grow, then they whither and die, and Allah is the One who prevails.