Back on the Green
Friday, May 25, 2012
It had sort of felt like the weekend, all week long.
And with the Bard visiting the green again on a summery spring night, it was time for the premiere of “Othello”.
Sausage biscuit and iced tea for OLeif, apple juice for Puck.
The park for half an hour. Puck rocketed up the short climbing wall in his Marvel Comics chucks.
Same dirty water sky.
Collette people-watched at the library – including a young girl in shiny silver Batman cap – while the boys cut out a stack of books.
Ponyo at Gloria’s, who was with Theodore, meeting clients. Puck lunched on pecans, cheddar, and banana chips. He would spend the night. The week had been one endless slumber party for the growing runt.
Gloria had returned from her Texan adventures with gifts from the motherland – chocolate amaretto pecan fudge, bags of pecans, and honey pecan butter.
Meanwhile, OLeif got the blue beast tuned up and returned to gather Collette, then Magnus, drop Puck off at Theodore’s office, and ride out into the city.
And on that hot afternoon of toast-colored sky…
They quickly spread out blankets in the heat and hustled to the Art Museum for several levels of walk-about, some African strings players, and the boys checked out the gift shop for a drawing book for Magnus.
Rose added two freshly caught bags of sugar to the deal before seven, with a full hour or more to spare, which included the usual juggling-comedy by the same old fellows from all the years prior.
There were always old faces present – the Buckle boys, Stan-o, Hamlet (two years removed), Kathleen George (assisting with wardrobe this year), a new church-plant pastor originating from Memorial, etc…
And shortly following the stroke of eight, the Venetian-Civil-War-Hugo-Clock ensemble, accompanied by the usual paint, blue-pink-green lights, and flocks of buggery. With all the exploding dramatics of an age long gone.
Very well done.
But then again, wasn’t it always.
A sliver of harvest moon cut the west shortly after eleven, as the hundreds shuffled off into the night.
OLeif and Magnus discussed library and made plans to meet up Saturday evening…
“Let’s do Steak ‘n Shake,” said OLeif with finality. “They have all you can eat pancakes for four dollars.”