The Two Whos

This is Cece’s cat Latte.  He is perched on her computer monitor, sitting on her beanie baby dog Rufus and on her stuffed red chile head and is looking…..at Cece’s printer button.

He is waiting to strike.  Latte loves to print out paper from the printer…and he has figured  out the procedure  to do this through trial and error….using the basic  cause and effect principle: pushing different buttons and then watching the paper come out or not.  Finally, he learns  which button to push to guarantee the paper… The idea of “paper of  paperless ” never crosses his mind!

Does anyone else have a silly cat like this?

***Remember to enter the Grab Your Bags contest! What methods do you employ to try to remember your bags?    The winner will get a free Bagnesia Kit .  The contest deadline is Friday April 2, 2010 at 10pm Mountain Time.  Please email Cece  (cecile@swcp.com)your funny story and The Two Whos will judge the funniest story.  We will notify the winner by Monday April 5,  2010.****

“Bye for Now” from The Two Whos

About The Mid-Week  Symphony: Since Wednesday is hump day, we have decided to take this moment and bronze it and have a bit of down time from the writing.  We thought each Wednesday  we would like to bring you a symphony of ideas, a harmony of thoughts, beauty, silliness and all things that make the fullness of life.  When we started this blog we wanted it to reflect our entire personalities and interests..and that means yes…. Cece loves  the Far Side Cows and Yun loves the mumble jumble philosophical books.   Yun and Cece have many interests and we would like to share some of them with you each Wednesday.

***Remember to enter the Grab Your Bags contest! What methods do you employ to try to remember your bags?    The winner will get a free Bagnesia Kit .  The contest deadline is Friday April 2, 2010 at 10pm Mountain Time.  Please email Cece  (cecile@swcp.com)your funny story and The Two Whos will judge the funniest story.  We will notify the winner by Monday April 5,  2010.**

Well, now that Cece is remembering her fabric bags when she goes out, she is forgetting everything else.  This week alone, she has forgotten her keys, her shopping list, her lunch, her phone and her  IPOD…all on separate days!

AND worst of all,she has forgotten to buy toilet paper!  All these trips to the store with her fabric bags and each time, she forgot to purchase the TP!  So all week, when in need,  she had to go  to the guest bathroom to take all that was there….then she went to the tissue box…then at the very last moment, before she went to paper towels..she finally remembered to buy the toilet paper.  She went to Target because it was closer, left her fabric bags in  the car and shouted a curse….swearing  that she would not put one thing  into a plastic bag in Target.

She went into Target and looked in the household area for the toilet paper.  There were all kinds of things,but no toilet paper.  Cece thought to herself…”Has Target stopped selling toilet paper?”  She looked and looked and saw none!  It was like a bad dream.Could there be no toilet paper in Target?  Finally,she flagged down an employee and asked about the toilet paper…she sent Cece clear across the store to an unlikely place in the far back corner.   And there they were ….rolls and rolls of that  coveted stuff!  But alas…. not Cece’s brand. She decided to make do….or shall we say do dooo with a renegade brand and took her TP…without the plastic bag that the cashier tried to foist upon her…and went home.  She put the toilet paper on the front seat of her car rather than in the trunk where she knew she would forget it! 

Hours later, when Cece needed the TP , she looked around.  Where was the TP?  Was her Target trip a dream?  She looked all over the house and could not find it.  Could it be possible that she left it in her car? Cece went down her 20 steep steps from her house and looked through her tinted car windows.  There…. in the front seat…. was the  pack that she purchased.  This time , she brought it into the house and was thankful that the jumbo package she purchased will last a very long time!

These are  the moments in life that are so unbelievable that  you could almost think it is a dream, a comedy, a joke played by the divine… laugh,  because  you can! 

“Bye for Now” from The Two Whos

***Remember to enter the Grab Your Bags contest! What methods do you employ to try to remember your bags?    The winner will get a free Bagnesia Kit .  The contest deadline is Friday April 2, 2010 at 10pm Mountain Time.  Please email Cece  (cecile@swcp.com)your funny story and The Two Whos will judge the funniest story.  We will notify the winner by Monday April 5,  2010.**

Yun went to the “woods” again… This time, she ‘met’ a young man. He is very young indeed. If Yun had had children in her late teens or early twenties, he would have been old enough to be her son.

To go back in time, she met this man a couple of months ago when she visited the woods.  Since then, she has often run into him when she was there. He seems innocent. Like many twenty somethings she encounters, he seems  confused and lost in the society.  Perhaps he is so he gives up or runs away from the society.  Well, that’s Yun’s assumption… Yun can be critical of the young and restless…assume that they are  ungrateful, unthoughtful and live in entitlement…

The sun is setting as Yun is walking towards the Zen enter. She  watches this young man herd two dozen chickens into the coup.  He walked to the right, then to the left, then back, the right and left. Effortlessly, he manged to herd the chickens through the narrow gate with such  ease and grace.  Yun was imagining her own grandmother back in China’s countryside years ago…

They invited the young man for dinner.  It turns out, this young man has indeed taken a break from college…, but he is not not confused nor lost, not ungrateful nor unthoughtful.   He simply chooses to leave school for a few months, and to do something that is in alignment with his value of  a simple organic life style.

He carries conversation with the same ease and grace as he herds the chickens.  He  sparkles with knowledge, wisdom and compassion.  Yun was so taken a back!  She could hardly keep up with his knowledge and critical thinking ability about world food crisis (not shortage), renewable energy, US space program, new technologies and organic farming….  A twenty years old kid!  Alone in the “wood” yet so close to the pulses of  society.!   He has a plan after the break,to  finish up his  schooling and to develop his  strategy for  making the world a better place….

This time, leaving the woods, Yun is ever hopeful and humbled.  How arrogant she has been assuming the dooms and grooms of the young generation! It is a lesson for her not to make assumptions without gathering the hard cold facts…

This story reminds Cece of her own  experience with  the Twenty Something Goth Girl.  It teaches us both not to judge a book by its cover! It also gives us a new way of looking at the youngsters today…. in their light…. not ours.

“Bye for Now” from The Two Whos

Yun was talking to Cece on the phone on Thursday afternoon; “I am eating sloppy lately, not paying much attention to the veggies and fruits.  I think I could be depressed because of the worries…” Yun is under a lot of stress lately, so she is not flowing through the space.  Air seems thicker than normal for her.  Cece giggles:”When I am upset, I eat.  You are just the opposite.”

Cece knows that Yun does not pay much attention to eating when she is occupied by other things.  Not eating can be dangerous, especially when you are doing long distance endurance sports, like Cece and Yun do.  Couple of years ago, Cece and Yun trained for their century ride through Team In Training.   Cece noticed that Yun was often short on snacks.  It was not that Yun forgot, she just never predicted she would need more.  So, Cece started to pack more snack just in case Yun did not think to bring some snacks.

In Yun’s world, food is never a focus point.  Food is the last on her mind, unless she is hungery.  Anything would take higher priority: busyness, worries… For Cece, the way of food is different.  She grew up  with the idea “eat, eat!”  Both of our views on food are not quite productive, and are  the habits we formed through our childhood

For Yun, the habit is not too bad  as long as she has a friend like Cece, who is very considerate when it comes to food.  On Thursday night, when Yun walked into the concrete store with her spin gears, Cece said: “I brought some grapes for you.”   “Oh, great.! Now I think I feel a little hungry. Thank you!”

Yun started indulging on the grapes: ‘Hmmm, good grapes. They are crunchy and cold and sweet.   I must be hungry because I normally do not eat grapes.”

Would it be wonderful that Yun adopt some of Cece’ attitudes towards food, and Cece takes a little of Yun’s?

Putting food into its proper perspective, whether it is to fuel the body or to nurture the body, is a discipline that both Whos need to continue to work on.

“Bye for Now” from The Two Whos

The Saturday Morning Rendezvous will be a place to stop in and meet up  on a weekend morning.  Have a cup of tea or coffee, a special breakfast,  and relax and catch up from the week’s fast pace.  The Two Whos will focus Saturday’s content on physical wellness and fitness of all types.  Come back and rendezvous with us!    See you next  Saturday!  Thanks for visiting.

The Two Whos are continuing their discussion about TV watching.  They know several  people who do not watch television because they feel that most of the news is negative and depressing, rarely speaking  to hope and change.  On TV they have to deal with the darker side of life like killing, rape and murder.  They feel powerless to change it.

And sometimes , Cece thinks, that we do not watch TV or read the news  because it forces us to look at the violence in ourselves!  We all have a dark side in us and we do not like it and do not want to look at it.

The other evening, Cece was watching  20/20, it was about Haiti. There for $150 you can buy a girl child.   In Haiti, child slavery is legal.  Children are given or sold to become indentured servants to the rich.  Often they are beaten, hungry and not cared for.

The Two Whos wondered what they could do?  They could throw money at the problem, but then there are still  thousands of other problems to fix. Most of us cannot do the very big things.   It is true that most of us will not take a boat into Ghana and bring malaria vaccines; nor will we work in the Tenderloin District in San Francisco on the night/street  ministry; nor will we go to Afghanistan to help educate women;  nor win the Nobel Peace Prize.

The Whos look around.  They see a friend whose family  became emergency foster care and saved a little boy from certain death at the hands of his parents.  We  see a friend who leaves a party early to gather clothes to give to Big Brother/Big Sister.    We see many  who  can donate $25 or $75 to buy a goat for the staving family in Africa.  We see a friend  who  can donate her  time to work with  underprivileged young adults to get them on their feet. We see some who teach non-violence to violent individuals.

…and this is our hope.  We open our eyes and LOOK and we see millions of people being the change they want to see in the world by doing one little thing, contributing one little piece of a giant puzzle….. blooming where they are planted…putting in their piece of the puzzle that makes the world the place they want to see…

And finally, at the end of the day,  we see a woman give a bag of groceries and a few dollars to a homeless man and we hear him say thank you…and the woman is left speechless…because she knows that she has, in her small way, illuminated a life and has tossed a little bit of light into his darkness.

“Bye for Now” from The Two Whos