Snippets of Conversations

Above is a photo of a water crystal that has been bottled and labeled "Thank You." Professor Emoto has photographed water crystals from clean water, polluted water, water that has been blessed by Buddhist monks, water exposed to Bach, water exposed to punk rock, bottled water with the label of "Hitler", and other kinds of water. Professor Emoto's work was one of many conversations I had at the family reunion on Sunday. Here are some others: Uncle Joe as a serviceman serving at Arlington cemetery serving as a guard at the tomb of the unknown soldier and how handsome he must have looked with his shockingly red hair, best places to put in and take out a canoe when traveling the Mississippi through downtown Minneapolis, fishing, calling ducks and geese during hunting season, Roseville puppet shows, new apartments, the danger of nuclear missiles from North Korea, cabins on the lake, job interviews in Seattle, volunteering for a local fire department, texting on cell phones, truck and tractor pulls, 4th of July parties at Block lake that now include a DJ and dancing, traffic tickets, people who litter the highways, aches and pains, bars that taste like Butterfinger candy, taking machines apart, gardening, getting old, viewing the Sandhill cranes at the Rowe Nature Center on the Platte river in Nebraska, whether sandhill cranes sound like the flying monkeys on the Wizard of Oz, deciding where a bone came from (dinosaur, a cow, or a pot roast), tree frogs, cooking brats in the BWCA, boy scout camp, strep throat, buckthorn berries, Boeng aerospace and defense contractor, traveling in the Cascade Mountain Range, ALL the lyrics to Alice’s restaurant, prairie chicken mating dances, assisted living facilities, ATV’s, pickled green beans, the connection between the low crime rate in Japan and the high percentage of atheists, Che Guevara, brats with pineapple inside, and goat agility tests. The strangest thing was the lyrics to Alice's restaurant. This is a 20 minute song and it was not one but two family members reciting the words.