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My Dad served in the Pacific during the war. His brother-in-law, my Uncle El, served there also. One of the photos that I had restored is a picture of Dad and Uncle El smoking cigars on an island after V-J Day. You can tell by the look on his face that the canteens did not have water in them.  Later on Dad enlisted in the Army and we ended up in Vienna, Austria. One of the items that Ma brought back was a very old statue, a warrior with a breast plate and a sword on his hip. She had her neighbor Harold convert it into a lamp and gave it to us as a wedding gift in 1965.

It ended up broken and in three pieces in a box in the basement of The Parsonage in Upsala. Ickler Company in St. Cloud soldered it back together and through my connections at The Paramount Center for the Arts, I found a “bronzer” in Howard Lake, INNOCAST Execuline, to refinish it. It turned out that the tip of the shaft and the feather were gold leaf.

When I was in Germany a few weeks ago I purchased a BMW model car to add to the collection of Vienna items.  The monkey in a top hat was a 25^th anniversary gift dated 1923.  The inscription, which is in German, states “What a monkey my lover is, like an illness or a fever”.   

The show this week is another rebroadcast.  The next live show is from St. Louis, MO on May 25^th.   Details can be found at livefromhere.org  

“Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What other say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinion and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.”   This is the second agreement from “The Four Agreements” by don Miguel Ruiz