A Transient Wisconsin Moai
As I stepped out of the door to start my morning walk a Wisconsin moai greeted me. It - or he? -is very much like his big brothers on the Easter Island but much smaller and extremely cooler as it is made of snow turning into ice – and probably into water if the unseasonally mild temperature continues to rise as predicted.
The little guy stands in the middle of the sidewalk one foot behind the invisible borderline between our real estate and the neighbor’s friendly greeting the surprised, baffled, intrigued schoolchildren heading toward the school bus station. I hope the friendly smiles and the rising temperature will not reduce him to a puddle of tears before my daughter wakes up and meets him.
Transcultural pictures
About a week ago I started taking half-hour walks in the morning, sometimes with my son.
Ethel KVALHEIM Lane
We are both transcultural travelers and therefore our sources of entertainment will never dry up.
The last two days we took our camera to capture aspects of the American suburban culture that in another cultural context might look or sound hilarious or intriguing.
Thus our German friends will savor the name Ethel Kvalheim Lane. As 30% of the local population is of Norwegian ancestry I am sure the word ‘Kval’ in Norwegian has a totally different meaning than the German word ‘Qual’ (‘torture’) and they would not conjure up pictures of Lady Ethel torturing her family in their home (‘Heim’). Or Ethel being the name of a jail where people are tortured, a torture-home. That would make no sense. To make sense she should have changed her name into “Guantanamo Kvalheim’.
The sign “NO CONCEALED WEAPONS BEYOND THIS POINT” will fill with admiration all our friends outside the USA for our courage, bravery and toughness to walk these streets with our weapons concealed. Up to that point, that is.
Ravishing Russian Choir
During my early morning walk I heard Russian choir on radio WORT http://www.wort-fm.org/ . It was ravishing, it made my day.
It turned out what I actually heard was ‘ ‘Ravishingly Russian’ http://www.msrcd.com/catalog/cd/MS1311
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