Comments on: Haiku 212 http://www.haikubytwo.com/haiku-212/ Alison Kehler and Kelly Westhoff alternate turns posting one new haiku each day. Reviews of haiku-themed products, interviews with haiku authors and guest haiku artists. Fri, 18 May 2012 08:58:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Alison http://www.haikubytwo.com/haiku-212/#comment-977 Alison Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:31:17 +0000 http://www.haikubytwo.com/?p=2278#comment-977 This happened the day after I got your email. I was so worried about you and it really consumed me but I didn't want Penny to pick it up. So the walk together was a relief in a way. Parents have two faces. This is good, I think, up to a point. It's good for kids to know that we have a range of emotions but... it's necessary to hide them sometimes. I'll never forget when I was about five years old I went to stay with my grandparents, who were truly wonderful to me. I was with my Nana and my Pop Pop was coming home from work. I decided to hide in the closet and surprise him. Well, as I was hiding I heard him come home and he was all grumpy. I had never heard him talk in this voice before. I thought, is this my Pop Pop? And then he opened the closet and was delighted to see me and I, of course, was relieved and happy. But I never forgot that their was the Pop Pop side of him and then his other side that I know now in my own adult world. This happened the day after I got your email. I was so worried about you and it really consumed me but I didn’t want Penny to pick it up. So the walk together was a relief in a way.

Parents have two faces. This is good, I think, up to a point. It’s good for kids to know that we have a range of emotions but… it’s necessary to hide them sometimes.

I’ll never forget when I was about five years old I went to stay with my grandparents, who were truly wonderful to me. I was with my Nana and my Pop Pop was coming home from work. I decided to hide in the closet and surprise him. Well, as I was hiding I heard him come home and he was all grumpy. I had never heard him talk in this voice before. I thought, is this my Pop Pop? And then he opened the closet and was delighted to see me and I, of course, was relieved and happy. But I never forgot that their was the Pop Pop side of him and then his other side that I know now in my own adult world.

]]> By: Kelly http://www.haikubytwo.com/haiku-212/#comment-975 Kelly Fri, 31 Jul 2009 13:15:57 +0000 http://www.haikubytwo.com/?p=2278#comment-975 A good time and place, it sounds like, to let down your mama mask. But you know what ... when she's in the stroller and you're pushing the stroller, even though she can't see you, you're both headed in the same direction -- forward. A good time and place, it sounds like, to let down your mama mask. But you know what … when she’s in the stroller and you’re pushing the stroller, even though she can’t see you, you’re both headed in the same direction — forward.

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