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Words to the strong and courageous

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Dear Haumea,

it looks like we will come face to face in a matter of hours or at most days. All this time your Mum has been so incredibly strong, funny, loving and light footed that it nearly is a miracle to me how anyone can walk around with some 25 pounds of Haumea (including supplies and baggage) and be such a bouncy and strong person who with such tremendous ease shrugged off everything that would threaten to spoil the experience up to the last minute. So it is my conviction that bringing you into this world will be an equally pleasurable experience. According to my mum and in contrast to a large number of pessimistics that is indeed possible. So here’s hoping for the best and preparing for the greatest.

 

Your dad

 

Reasons….

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Dear Haumea,

it’s just your dad, easy to distinguish because his output is so infrequent. I am hopeful that over time i will learn from your mum and have the spontaneity and freedom of spirit to write a beautiful long post in which nuggets of truth are embedded like raisins in a german Christmas Bread, just like she did last night in between two courses of our dinner. Your dad configures a fully functional e-commerce server in that time span, but writing ? Not yet, anyway.

There are many reason i can think of why i want to commit to Bella and you sure will ask us one day and on that day i won’t have to refer you to this post for the answer. Your mum is spontaneous, righteous, truthful and fair. She can be a bit jealous but that is actually a byproduct of honesty. Most people are jealous but never admit it and that in itself is the root of many an evil in this world you will soon enter. Also your mum is so practical it sometimes breaks my heart just thinking about it. When pressed for time she toast bread on a gas flame (and delicious that is!), she ejects SIM card with an earring, she lets grievances go temporarily of for good and always makes the right choice. Just today she went through a pile of depressing paperwork concerning some of the hardship she came out of with a smile when i heard her sobbing so i rushed to where she was sitting and learned that it was a short note of mine floating in the midst of that endless pile of past disappointment brought tears of joy to her eyes. I cannot think of many if any fellow human beings who would see the glass as being half full at such a moment but once again Bella did and that is why we will be your mum and that with paper, ring and all. There are many other reasons but i keep them for later posts.

We already live in one of the most beautiful places on Earth and yet despite that fact we would be just as merry in good ‘ol communist Poland, sharing a simple meal made of our pooled food stamps as a mere necessity that complements the existential pleasure of each other company. Why else do we sometimes not leave the house on a glorious day except for cooling off in our gigantic swimming pool that we hope will be your playground too and very soon.

1983 Polish Food Stamp

Well, the good news is we could have swapped the Cigarette and Alcohol allowance for chocolates 😉

Today we are no longer worried about the next meal so before we have it let me take your Mum on a nice little walk around the tropical country side around here.

Lots of love and i cannot wait to take you little kicking and spinning (a homage to Bruce Lee?) dervish in my arms so your mum no longer has to carry all that weight.

Your dad.

New Zealand Soujourn

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Dear Haumea,

after a long absence here is your dad writing again. Not one day passes where we do not think of you and neither does any day come to a close where your Dad did not fall in love with your Mum again

Your Mum has so many qualities many obvious many more not so obvious that let my heart melt over and over again. Take for instance one day where I was rummaging for an implement to change the SIM card in our iPhone and before I knew it your Mum had removed her Tahitian pearl earring and handed it to me with the pin first. Or take the way your Mum handles stress and smiles and jokes in the face of adversity. Sadly there are lots of people where there is a massive gulf separating word and action and disappointment is looming but your mum just smiles and already thinks of an alternative. On the other hand your mum has earned the luck the call a handful of reliable, genuine and great friends her own and thanks to them everything fell into place on this trip of ours that we undertook to close or at least temporarily finish writing the chapter titled ‘New Zealand’ in the gripping Novel that is your Mum’s life. What remains are great friends, a handy Holiday and shopping destination and the need to rent a car to get around but a small prize to pay  of we can have each other and you.

We also tried to get a belated confirmation from the Dolphins but their larger relatives and our hearts already made a decision a long time ago so your Mum and I were happy with them turning up in great numbers and frolicking around the bow of our boat. When your Mum and I went out swimming one came up close to your mum so in case you were wondering about all these ultrasound sounds outside of a hospital environment and a cold one at that – yep – that was them whose intelligence and ways of life we still try to understand. One thing is clear, they enjoy loving one another just as much as we do, few creatures are able to.

Things are moving along nicely, you have grown considerably since my last post and all in all give us no trouble at all apart from causing havoc with your Mums hormones which she handles just as well as anything else life has thrown at her and believe you me that was rather a lot.

So from hereon I will simply have to be a good husband and dad and all will be easy sailing like a wake on the trade winds. So long my dear until my next post which I promise will be soon.

Love

Your Dad

Common Dolphins in the Bay Of IslandsANZAC Bay, Waiheke Island