Just another Yankee with a Maple Leaf on her back-pack

While still engaged to mom, dad whisked off to the University of Washington to get a BA in theatre. Mom and dad corresponded faithfully until one day Dad mentioned working in a Sorority to supplement the GI bill paying his way. “You mean a Fraternity, don’t you” was mom’s reply.  Nope, dad replied, he was pretty sure it’s a Sorority cause men don’t look this good in satin.  My parents married that fall and my sister was born in Seattle the following year.

We always assumed because she lives in Canada, pays taxes in Canada and never declared U.S. citizenship after reaching the age of 21, she was a Canadian. Until, that is, she had to apply for her passport and was told she really wasn’t a Canadian…or American…or, well, anything. It took a signed declaration by my father, his birth certificate to prove his citizenship and the intervention of Rowe’s Member of Parliament to finally cut the red tape for the passport to be issued.

Never take life in this country for granted. It is a gift, a blessing and a jewel beyond price.

Visit Jowi Taylor and the amazing Voyageur at www.sixstringnation.ca , better yet, go to your local book store and buy his book. 

Thanks for visiting Baba's Beach today. If you have any comments, we'd love to hear them.

Music from the Podsafe Music Network this week:

Song of Assisi by -MARC GUNN - Celtic Songs, Sci Fi, and Cats

Maple Leaf Rag by Jeanne Backofen Craig

September Wind by  Hardwire Speers

O Canada by *Danny Fong* (Some Tracks Feat. A cappella quartet, 'Mixed Nuts' or other friends and family)

Noodling by Jay Moonah (Thanks to Daniele Rossi for the recording of the 6 String Nation guitar at PAB 2009)

To Michelangelo the process of his art was to look at a block of marble at dawn in order to see the figure it contained and then to take away all the pieces that didn't belong. I seem to be a work in progress with lots of pieces being removed but I'm pretty sure the final result won't exactly be an angel.  Maybe I'm just not ready to be one yet.

"I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” - Michelangelo

Thanks for visiting Baba's Beach today. If you have any comments, we'd love to hear them.

Please visit us at www.babasbeach.ca and send comments to babasbeach@gmail.com

Music from the Podsafe Music Network this week:

Elegy for M by Ash Verjee

VoiceDance - Choir SATB by Danny The Multitracker

They Cant Take That Away From Me by Sylvia Bennett