But exquisite covers aren't what makes photo albums valuable: it's what's inside! Here are a few more pics from a GOLDMINE album on one of the bookshelves in Daddy's study.
Showing posts with label Janice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Janice. Show all posts
Oct 1, 2024
CRANES OF BROCADE AND GOLD
The caption on the first photo of me should read: "Hey! Where's the steering wheel?" I always wanted to learn to drive, and at the Kadena Carnival always asked Daddy if I could ride the military jeep "train". All the wheels were raised slightly off the ground, and the axles were all connected to the first jeep that actually drove around, but it looked so real.
The next two pix are a pair. These little cars really did have steering wheels; but I seem to be yelling at Janice, in the car in front of me, "You drive with the steering wheel, not with your tongue!"
And in the second picture, "Janice, you're doing it again!" I've heard of kids who draw pictures or take careful aim by sticking out their tongues, but my sister drives that way!
The fourth photo, of all the photos taken of my sister Janice, THIS is probably my favorite. I think it was taken by an uncle in Hawaii.
Janice will be coming to Okinawa in Dec.; I so want her to want to take a peek at what's available in the "Mini Museum".
What? You're kidding, right? Don't I know the Bible says the tongue, a small member, boasts great things; like a helm, it can drive the whole body?
I forgot she memorized James last year.
Mar 29, 2023
JUST ONE
This is something that happened Jan. 23 here in my home in Saitama. I completely forgot about, since it happened that one night, and the events of the following weeks in Okinawa totally rubbed it out of my memory.
When my sister came from the U.S., she bought him a bagful of sweets. Her boys had played basketball with Keima when they met one summer...he was a 5th grader then, and they'd become the best of friends. How do children do it? Her kids didn't speak Japanese, and mine didn't know English, yet they were inseparable in a few weeks! When she left for Japan this time, they'd asked her to get a picture of Keima for them. "Just one? Please?" she asked him.
Keima had just been saying thank you to Janice for the sweets she gave him. When she mentioned her sons, how could he refuse? So...while she saw he slightly cocked his head like, "I guess it wouldn't kill me..." she tugged at his arm and smiled, signaling for me to snap the shot.
This is the sketch taken from that photograph.
Thank God for sisters, cousins, cameras, colored pencils, sweets, blogs!
"Be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy." (I Timothy 6:17)
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