Love @ e-Reading (PART 1 OF 3)
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Time flies by quite fast, eh?
From: denman@infoseek.jp
To: diane705@yahoo.ca
cc: barclay1720@aol.com
Date: Tues., Jan 28, 2014 4:04 PM
Pacific Standard Time
Hi Diane,
How are you doing?
We don't have many sunny days lately.
So naturally I tend to stay in the library.
Two weeks ago, I watched the following DVD at the main branch.
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■"Actual Catalogue Page"
Among five episodes is "Angel of Bergen-Belsen," which is a story about a young nurse called "Luba" who helped children survive in the concentration camp.
She is a rather homely yet good-natured woman who herself survived with a series of good lucks and fortunes.
If Anne Frank had met her in the camp, she might've just as well survived.
What a pity!
I was greatly impressed by the "Angel of Bergen-Belsen."
Why?
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Luba was NOT a sexy woman.
She was more adequately described as a homely woman.
Yet, she was definitely a good-natured woman.
Now I know that good-naturedness is more valuable than sexiness for survival in this world---if not in the concentration camp.
If she'd been an average mediocre woman, she might have died a long time ago.
She survived with a series of good lucks and fortunes.
How come?
... 'Cause she was a good-natured woman.
Her extraordinary story certainly reminds me of your mail about your stay in Faro.
Diane, do you remember the following mail?
Summer is here with us!
Enjoy the sunshine!
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From: diane03760@vancouver.ca
To: barclay1720@aol.com
Date: Tue, Jul 26, 2011 4:35 pm.
Pacific Daylight Saving Time
Thanks my truly skinny Socrates, Kato.
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■"Madame Riviera and Burger"
(July 26, 2011)
I've read the above article.
Your article is excellent as usual.
I did remember that you lived in Yellowknife some years ago.
Many years ago, I too lived for six months or so in the north, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.
Actually, I worked for a mining company in a small town called Faro (Anvil Mines at the time) as secretary to the President.
I was given my own apartment (most of the staff had to live in bunk houses) and a huge salary compared with what I would receive in Vancouver.
So I was thrilled about that.
I didn't want to feel totally isolated, though, so I asked whether I could eat with the others in the cookhouse and they obliged.
Thank God.
It was fun and much easier than doing my own cooking and making do with the limited selection in the local store.
The cook took a special liking to me and every day he would give me extra rations of cookies and cakes.
Pretty soon I realized that if I took advantage of these favours I would end up being a roly-poly.
so I would take them and then give them away.
Lotsa fun.
I do remember a really cute Japanese gal who worked up there telling me she had already gained 25 lbs in one year, and it showed.
It was all the lesson I needed, thankfully.
Le Crueset cookware is definitely famous.
A friend of mine in Kerrisdale has some and he said they're very, very expensive but worth every penny.
He has one pot that he uses almost daily and has for years and it has proved to be the best pot he's every cooked with and worked with---sturdy, reliable, easy to work with.
So I guess it's worth the big bucks, true?!
Vancouver is pretty good, but not paradise I'd say.
The weather's too crummy half the time, or more than half the time actually, Which is why my brother left Canada for France.
He could no longer stand the cold weather.
Certainly, I do miss him.
As a matter of fact, I've found an interesting joke:
You see, Kato, we don't have many sunny days in Vancouver!
Anyway, I enjoyed reading your article.
Thanks again for all this.
Love, Diane ~
SOURCE: "Roly-poly in the North"
(July 30, 2011)
Time flies by quite fast, eh?
The cook took a special liking to you because you're a good-natured woman.
So, I'm pretty sure you'll definitely survive in this world---if not in the next.
Now, talking about a decadent and romantic escape at the Harrison Hot Springs Hotel, I've just written an article about it.
Please click the following link:
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■"Beauty in Spa"
I hope you'll enjoy the above article!
Your smiling Bohemian, Kato
with a lot of love
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(To be followed)