Annie O to Kaos:
Aug 11 touching whd contact…omg! First & Last Name : Sierra Whiskey
City : Stockton / State : CA /
I want to write a story about World Hoop Day :
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Comments & Questions :
I want to know more! My little neighbor is fascinated with my hoop. Her parents don't like me and I can't seem to be able to talk to her. I also am interested in working with local groups to bring hooping to Molly and other hoop-lovers, of all ages.
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-------------------------------------Sierra to Kaos:
Hi Mr. Kaos,
Wow what a shock I never dreamed the co-founder of the international event would answer my rambling email. Thanks.
We have a common acquaintance, who remembered seeing the 8808 WHD. She said 'how they do what they do is as impressive as what they're doing' and you just proved that.
My head is spinning, pun intended, over this. Molly's situation is just one illustration. There are kids all over my block who don't know each other, who all congregate in my front yard when I come out with my hoop. I even got a bunch of gangster kids at a recent outdoor wedding reception to be cool by throwing a few toy hula hoops into the crowd.
Yes, I would love a hoop for my little neighbor and I would love to be a local ambassador.
My mother is/was a leader for a New Age-y organization that took her away from us for most of my childhood, 'for your own karma'. I firmly believe charity begins at home. I have the greatest respect and admiration for those who leave home to be good to each other, but I feel my mission is more to bloom where I'm planted. It's a native California thang, y'know?
I would be honored to rep your event in my hometown. To most of the Stockton folks, even the hip ones, SF might as well be Australia. We need hooping out here, sure do. I'd be happy to approach the Boys and Girls Club or a local school. Let me know.
My husband, who bought me my first hoop two months ago, says I should just have a hoop block party and write about that, and stick it up all over online. That's my fallback plan.
What a long, weird letter. Oh well. In case I don't hear from you again, here's the information you asked for; YES, please!, and, my address to send the hoop Sierra Whiskey 123 Hula Circle, Stockton CA
peace in the sacred hoop
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Kaos to Sierra:
a dear friend of mine(now expecting yea!) and fellow hooper is a hometown girl like you. if it's ok i would like to send her this dialog...perhaps she still has peeps that would want to rock the block wit ya… i will get them out asap...biagi is my family name btw...yours sounds familiar...olga was my grandmother. outraged at new age but seriously spiritual and magical myself...as you are surely. fyi whd is dyi so let loose local there lassie…got to git but will be in touch...thank you sooooooooooooo ….namaste
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Sierra to Kaos:
Well met, Hoop Day Founders!
It makes me tremble a li'l over my own shyness and insecurity to be overcome, and feel tingly at the possibility of connection and fun. Plus, new hoop friends!
I just discovered the Hoop Day tribe (I am chagrined not to have thought of them first), and am nodding vigorously to my laptop whilst reading 'how to start a hoop group'.
I'm in.
I need hoops. For the upcoming local action, I need four or five kid's sized ones. I'm scheduled to work almost all of August, (24/7 radio center on a revolving schedule, and they're pretty strict about off time, etc). Point being, I doubt I could learn to make hoops in time for Hoop Day.
May I buy some from you? Or at least pay you for Molly's and refund your postage? I'll be flowing you some cash in a few minutes here anyway.
Details, details. These are only details. Oh, the places I will hoop! I can't wait. Did I mention I'm cleared as a Rec. Therapy volunteer at the V.A. hospital? Homegirls are going to love hooping.
Your friend sounds delightful. I will be proud and happy to meetup. I'm available most mornings till about noon.
my cellphone is xxxxxxxxxxx. I usually have to let it go to VM but check it frequently.
The Biagis are city founders here! Rep your set in the 209, yeah! :) I don't think we're related except for spiritually though. My maiden name was Nicassio. I'm from L.A.
I'm pretty sure my mother, if asked, would find a way to prove cousinage. Parenthetically, I am 1/4 Northwestern Paiute. You know, Ghost Dance, Hoop-Menders, etc. Makes me get tingly again to think how we hoopers keep finding each other.
Thank you so much for your interest on this level. I realize you are a busy man/organization, and my questions are pretty basic. Thanks for not making me feel like a n00b even though I am one.
Peace to us all!
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Sierra to Kaos:
Hey K, I am so sorry I missed your phone calls. That would have worked out perfectly.
I work in an aviation communications center and we aren't allowed any personal electronics. I only mention this because that's the reason it took me so long to respond to your voicemail.
Thanks again for your interest in getting hooping going in Stockton. Ms. O'Keeffe also sent me a note suggesting I try the Hooping.org forums, and that is making me absolutely burn to make my own hoops.
Peace to you too.
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Kaos to Sierra:
my parents are both private pilots and i flew before able to walk...n5514a to stockton approach with information hula...requesting vfr landing on 9right left downwind i knew from your email and the phonetic call letters contained...cool!
there are tons of folks headed to burning man and perhaps could drop them if it's ok just trying to expedite their arrival and example of materials to make them
if it is just you and a few on your block(i hope molly too) the impact still significant sending ripples round the world...seems silly perhaps but like radio waves they continue to infinity
thank you so much for sharing your story...and mothers theory too(what part of the old country is your family from? were from luca and still have cousins holding it down
one way or another i have 2 really nice ones and 2 untaped to send you ready...to receive in time sure
Stay in touch and i'll get you connected with more hip hula loving folk in your town the forum may be fruitful for this also..or you could drop by on one of our hoop-making parties sometime
….namaste
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Sierra to Kaos:
Thank you so much for the invite. Hoop people are the most inclusive I've ever seen. That's one reason I believe your ripple effect theory. It's why at this late date I'm excited about something as simple and fun as a World Hoop Day.
I would appreciate getting the hoops the cheapest and simplest way you can ship them. Hopefully, some of this overtime can buy a few more hoop-units over at your site.
I'd love a meetup, but even if it doesn't work out, Hoop Day will be joyfully celebrated here in the Delta, you know it.
Peace and thanks again for everything… Susan
P.S.- My mother's people are from Bari. We still have cousins in Florence. When I visited there for the first time a couple years ago, a kid I met in the park told me, for Americans traveling abroad, always carry either a hula hoop or a soccer ball, and can make friends anywhere you go. :)
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Kaos to Sierra:
sweet susan, the honor is mine and am humbled by your caring and character...thanks!
(see pictures...puppies)
a friend in point pleasant beach nj has folks from bari...small whirled
please post any plan you make to the calendar at hooping.org if you want others in area to find you. or forward to me and i'll enter it in 4 you. and definitely take pictures. but mostly have FUN.
we will be doing 9.99 seconds encircled visualizing peace in silence in sf at sunset
(civic cent) followed by: flash mob in center of circle lighting torches(fire toys) and dancing...7:27 pm on that day this latitude commencing.
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Those pictures made my day. Day has just been made! Not bad for a Monday. Sirius was the first guide dog I ever met. I've been attached to that name ever since.
I just saw a picture of Annie on the World Hoop Day tribe. She is an empress. A sunflower blooming in a Wall-E-type modern trash-scape.
I totally agree what some of the Day One hoopers say about the bright plastic co modification of hooping and the attempts to brand and market the aesthetic. But getting back to my original interest in your project, nothing, and I mean nothing, is as beautiful in the whole hoop-canon as the vision of a centered female handing out hoops to happy children.
It's what pulled me in. I don't look like anybody on the playa - (like my barrio cousins said, 'if you grew up on the rez, you don't NEED to go to Burning Man'); and I'm too old, too tired, too beset with the constant tiny nitty-gritty battles of urban life to put together a hip personal style. I actually hesitate to mention World Hoop Day to people I know would be into it, because they don't fit any high-concept image I've seen of hoopers.
I just can't resist helping people feel like dancing.
A hoop dances you. I'm especially thrilled by its effects on brain-damaged and social-phobic people. It may be a magic-bullet antidote to aloneness.
Okay, long, off-topic rant, but it is relevant. One, because as I said, you made me feel welcome and needed. (You have no idea. Just wait till I get started!....)
Thank you for that. Our home is open to you and yours. (Even the k-9s.)
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Kaos to Sierra:
Susan…streaming down my cheeks are tears of joy as typing this…gasping for breath by the beauty of your loving. I guess were even because you just made mine. Blowing my nose and dabbing the drops from my face delightedly. Actually was awoken by a lady friend of my dad calling to thank me for giving hoops 4 her granddaughter. She was going as fast as your sentences. Which are wonderful by the way…
High concept…. Not!!! This is my friend katie...she got her other name from me one morning as she appeared in a costume change and was yet again a beautiful...Surprise!
just thought i'd pass it along so you know that not all the pro hoopers have attitude...and perhaps you'll pick up a trick or two inspiring the kids...what colors do you like because i would like to make a hoop for you special... also have an email address for you to connect with my friend C a stocton sisteren she is a hooper too and perhaps has friends that are either doing or would like to do somthing 999 and don't forget the sunset(7:27pm pst) ceremony: circle in hands silent visualizing peace then play and dance provoking it
There is a magic unmatched and unmistakable in the middle of your hoop no doubt. Forget those high minded fluffs and profit posers. In a way I agree that their marketing mania is money motivated. My only mission is to make more joy.
Last year exhausted in every regard my friend interviewed me on camera, delirious….excerpts. “…it’s hard to argue with children laughing…smiles …bright and shiny colors”
Crying again as it seems you have already started “…helping people feel like dancing” like a hoop dancing me. I will go ahead and ship some in a day or so…as Molly’s minutes count. Headed to hunt materials momentarily making them midday and moving them your way might soon. Motivated and thankful for your magnificence, Namaste…k
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Sierra to Kaos:
I haven't had time to write back because I've been re-watching katie's tutorial. She is adorable.
Katie Surprise is aptly named. You have a gift for seeing other people's gifts, maybe? You might be Native, too, I think.
The fluff and attitude you mentioned may just be that so much of the 'look' of early hoopers was based on what looks good during early dusk on the playa. Deliberately dramatic (as in Greek drama) costuming to provide catharsis and vicarious involvement from the audience. Or even more true, to dissolve the barrier between performer and audience. Like clown makeup or circus costumes, playa style can be threatening up close. It has a place, but so many of the new hoopers, I fear, are out to buy and imitate the fluff, and not just pass along the joy.
Know what I say? Live and let live. I'm over it. :) Yes yes yes, please feel free to pass along anything I send to you. Flattering to think anything I can say has enough value to be recyclable.
Now, I am going to leave you alone for awhile and get to work/play making hoops. Wheeee!
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Kevin, (I just deleted a whole couple of paragraphs)*yippeee! doing happy dance* I'm so glad you like my words, since I'm just about tired of them right now. Sometimes, dancing is more productive, yes? I love that you made hoops for grandchildren. I was so right about this group. :)
I overreacted in my last rant, but I was bruised and scarred by my years in the sometimes not-nice xxx dance community. Discovering something is not the same as inventing it, and nobody can control something as elemental as movement or personal style. Hooping will never, IMHO, devolve into anything as mass-crass-produced as a 'look' because it is so inherently fun, silly, irreverent, and DIY. Posers are fun to watch, party with, and occasionally, learn from, in ecological balance. Hey, if there's room for someone like me in this scene, there's a place for everyone, right?
I'll see what I can do about starting a Stockton WHD action. I'm scheduled to work, but I may be able to trade days or hours to do the sunset dance.: I called Rep Mc Nerney's office today and asked him to participate, too. I'm going to try my hand at making hoops today, and his will be first. A Blue one (do you think that's too subtle? heh)
Do you really want to make a hoop for me after all the time I've already taken from you? Yeesh. I accept, with gratitude. I love green, blue and yellow. I promise to never let it get borrowed away or land on the blacktop like my other one.
One other quick note - my son is studying Ethnomusicology at UCLA. He's going to be on campus for WHD. He never had the slightest interest in any of my other previous pastimes, but he is insatiably curious about hooping. We just had one of our best conversations ever, and the first I can remember when he actually asked me anything about me. I'm going to get him to co-ordinate with UCLA hoopers to do something for World Hoop Day. More on that as it develops. I truly hope you are getting as much out of this exchange as I am. Ripple effect, indeed. Okay, off to scour the city for hoop supplies. Here goes nuffin' peace
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Kaos to Sierra:
"Something" ?@!the tears and goose pimples priceless. gasping for air at the beauty of you and babe bonding...full from the insights shared in your words! wow!!! green blue yellow yes! and yur boy? I will do a yellow blue green one you can gift him also...husband? blue yellow green...any more kids in your clan? you're in luck because I just got some blue tubing...and green glitter tape! Wondering what wanderings got left on the cutting room floor.?. You are amazing and setting the bar higher by the day...just keep breathing deep breaths and resting between jumps. my only words in worriless joy. Glad Surprise inspires you as she does me, to smile and dance.
I am going to invite Joan Baez and see if she'll lead us in song before the sun scampers. As we hold hands encircled hoopishly happy soon silently summoning then dancing flames igniting the desires. Native?! Yerba Buena born!!!
Let me know what you local rep says and if he likes the idea of what you're doing locally...invite him to spread it amongst his state house colleagues to bring to their districts attention. Picturing Arnold hips heaving on the capitol steps. ha ha ha
Healthy children socializing together irrespective of socionationalpoliticaleconomicness origin is hard to "spin" when you're talking about laughing kids hooping for health and peace joyously joined, and dancing(or being danced as someone actually said so astutely) Las Vegas is promoting it in all their public schools this year. They had a native American doing a traditional hoop dance in full dress with kids entranced at an auditorium opened especially for it.
Here's some tricks in the making...from the hoopmaster' lmao 100' or 50' rolls available ½” & ¾” - splice connectors(or wood dowels can be substituted)corresponding to inside dimension heat gun or hair dryer to soften ends prior to connection (USE gloves 4 grip and insulation from heat) after connected lay on flat surface so they are not warped in plain alternate heating of ends directing air into the tubes ends so circulating it's entire length let ends cool somewhat before making connection Call me if you run into any snags or successes. Xxx.xxx.xxxx for reference
You truly are an inspiration and a reminder of why I KNOW the world is changing for the better…Bye ps where is that “paragraph delete” key? just in case I need it someday.!@?#$%?----------------
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Kaos to Sierra:
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Sierra to Kaos:
I just forwarded this to Rep Mc Nerney's office and triple-dog-dared him to get Ahnold hooping, too.
I also posted the link on my Twitter. Twitter is terrific for sharing information.
Those hips...aggh, the horror. Brings back memories of when the Governator was just another groping narcissist on Muscle Beach. But that's another story...heh
Nice article, and great mention of Ms. Annie! I didn't realize she was studying nursing. Awesome.
No luck yesterday on the tubing safari...may have to drive further afield. Your secret hints were timely and very valuable. hooray hooray for handmade hoops! Sonnyboy will about lose his mind when he sees it. :) I created an account for Hooping.org forums. More info will get posted as things start to happen. namaste back at ya
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Kaos to Sierra:
Super Susan!!!! OH NO YOU DID'NT!!! Double Dog Dare!!! WOW!!!! I'M moved and marveling at your motivation. You go girl!!!
I shared our conversation with my mom because i was so touched by its affects on the relationship with your son. And today’s top priority getting taped the testaments to my gratitude. Green Yellow Blue Go!!!!
Whilst the politicos talk in circles about health care...it seems were working healthy caring with hoops...wonderful!!! Annie is in school now and so I am picking up the ball, or hoop as it were and whirling with it. We are grateful to have someone like you so like mindedly laboring alongside.
Your story is sweeping me ever off my feet...and I can tell your falling more in love with yourself too, as we all will love each other as one. With luck soon!!!
I just got an email from a Canadian that will be hosting hooping and dedicating it to all the political prisoners of war and peace. Reminds me that like hooping it's all about what matters to you in the circle. That there are only 3 remaining following this tri-numeral, puts a sense of urgency and resolve to our actions.
Cleared for take off and climb to 2012...love ya…k
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13 ready to roll. ...or hoop as it were. Hope you like them and that the other kids, do too.
They are unmistakably made by the hands of kaos...the 2 blue and 1 narrower white tube ones have a brass connector and can be made collapsible (just find the seam and cut tape alongside one edge. then use a wrap or two of cloth adhesive(first aid)tape when rejoining)
i'd give $10 to anyone who could pull apart the others though...omfg...that gives me an idea...challenge the groper...girl!
must pretest one but pretty sure that considering i heat the ends to 600deg. before shoving the nylon spline connectors in the thicker tubing...he'd not be able to pull it apart and look real silly trying too...but would have to demonstrate and endorse there durability doing so...silly!? bordering on crazy!? or genius!? or dork!? geek!? and goofball?!
i hope your getting as much out of our correspondence as i am!? you started it!!! even if i hit you back first(proverbially via email)!?! you hit me harder?! wwwwwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!! i'm telling! laughing my ass off silly sister
seriously this is a fellow hooper whom i think you will admire as much surprise...though re watching her videos are not as much fun...healing nonetheless...and a real role model(no pun intended)http://www.melodymoezzi.com/bio.html
Sent stuff to Tavis Smiley and Joan Baez. Working my dad, Bill, to get his pal Willie Brown out wiggling with us. I'm just going to start typing up my dream press release for world hoop day and work towards its actually being publishable. As i encourage you and will others to do likewise in the locale they love. Love Kilo Papa Oscar / Alfa Kilo Alfa
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13????? Wowowowow. Yes. YES. They will be enjoyed. I invited Molly and two other kids from the block to hoop with me last night on my front lawn...usually avoid the front because of druggy loiterers at her house, but I had a few cheap toy store hoops for misdirectional magic, heh
Yes, I DO enjoy and admire our conversations. I don't take that for granted, being rather a veteran at social media sites. I used to spend easily twelve hours a day returning messages and comments before the impulse swung the other way and I spent weeks ignoring the phone and computer. Now I'm quite judicious about contact. I understand and appreciate that there is so much else you could be doing!
I value your time, here, and in the work you've put into World Hoop Day, and the hoops you're sending me! I still can't believe it.
The collapsible ones sound rad. I believe I will save the blue one(s) for elected officials. The rest will be our D Street Hoop Bank. I talked to an MFCC that I know from the gym today, and she suggested we use her as a sponsor to get serious attention as a community group.
Oh! I actually had my first-ever hoop-inspiration. I was just musing while doing some lazy waist-hooping yesterday and had a sudden thought. A local college has the very first Center for Social Entrepeneurship in the country. They do a lot of community service, and are always interested in 'engaging the non-traditional locals', ie, dumbass dropouts like me. I had the idea, inspired by Annie's picture, your emails, and hooping, to teach blind children how to decorate hoops with florescent tape, and - this is the vision part - to give the glowing hoops to disabled children to use in glow-in-the-dark dance performances.
I used to do Behavior Support in special ed, and I can tell you, no one dances like a handicapped child in darkness. I use to want to harness that flow, to give them a stage and let them earn some applause. Just a thought. Like I said, hooping leads your mind some crazy places.
There is nothing I can do to repay your generosity, except be generous. That's fun to think about.
The link is great. I have heard of Melody Moezzi from NPR, but I had no idea she was a hooper!
There I go with paragraph-deleting again. Not enough time to edit. I'm at work and not supposed to be online. If my emails are rather disjointed and infrequent, that's the reason why.
Willie Brown?? REALLY?! Also, I'm watching the Hooping.org forums. I have a profile there now. Still waiting to hear from a couple people I thought would want to be in on a WHD Stockton action. In any case, I'll be meeting outside McNerney's office with a friend (Husband to be photographer) and then doing the block party at sunset. I can't wait!
I hope my almost total lack of cohesiveness in this letter and my infrequent replies don't discourage you from keeping this convo’ going. Like a balloon in a moshpit.....your hits are always encouraged. : - Standing By hoop day
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Kaos to Sierra:
i bet the blind kids can hoop better than the "disabled" ones and can't get freaked out when the lights go out
...seriously though i can imagine from your description and realize how the darkness would remove any self conscious thoughts restricting their movement...marvelous mind you have!!!
my sister Eileen teaches special ed in Daly City and i will invite her to bring this concept into her class...i have an oversize one with glow tape..i'll gift it to her from you...take that for giving, for giving(you can see where this is going) you are an inspiration...i dropped out the 2nd semester of 10th grade year...but turned on and tuned in well before that even. whoops!
i actually am pissed enough at the lies and half truths our public school system shoveled in the decade i attended...unlearning any more years would just have made me mad… like my kindergarten teacher that used to smack me with a ruler on the hand would get when I would smile while he whacked
am tapping up the last two now...a prismatic one with red reflective white and blue... kids size perhaps to Molly's liking. how old/big is she anyway? so i must tell you, if you don't already know, Molly is a slang term for MDMA or Ecstasy as it is more commonly referred to...so "hoops for Molly" could be quite mistaken…lmao
it's quality not quantity i value in communication. and yours all always top shelf. Like melody!....i like and have so much respect for her too, she is going to pitch a piece to NPR for hoop day...i'm sending her a press release to work from and may have to quote you if that's ok
japan just contacted me with details of their day and then it dawned on me...as they are doing their sunset visioning...it will be soon rising on our hoop day...and when we are doing our sunset silently envisioning …it is rising in peace there... on their tomorrow…i explained this to them so...they'll see themselves in prayer there and in the morning after at peace
or something like that...keep me posted as i will send you updates as available..
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Sierra to Kaos:
I like your ps's. Most conversations don't really get going until hand-on-the-door comments, dontcha think?
Yes I did find resonance in the Black Elk quote, but, to be honest, there is so much to respond to in your notes that I could happily spend all day here, and forget I have other less fun folks in my inbox to deal with. Sigh. Adulthood. It's enough to drive one to hoola hooping.
Molly is a tall n' skinny fifth-grader, probably about 4'9' or thereabouts. She's pretty athletic, though. Has a nice hook shot from what I've observed. I can't wait to tell her about you.
Your family sounds amazing.
I can't claim credit for the performance idea.There was a special on network t.v. about ten years ago about children abuse and torture victims having their own glow-in-the-dark dance troupe. They were invisible except for black-light gloves. It was cute. You know how horrible scars and bruises can be at that age. Well, I do. Another story for another time. But what I was groping to say was that that the social entrepenuership center already has a youth group who teach job skills to blind children in Africa, where there is a lot of juvenile diabetes and resulting childhood blindness. Job skills are great, but fun skills are more my thing. I was one of those kids who had to be taught to have fun. Maybe that's why I take such a harsh and judgemental line against the types who want to turn hooping into something they can buy off ebay or take home and study. As if laughter and spontenaeity is something you need a facillitated workshop in. The competitive aspect is there, I suppose, but there's more in the hoop than that.
UPS is here. My soapbox arrived. *rimshot*
Now, changing the subject - I'm an alternate shop steward at my job. I'm supporting a union brother unfairly discharged, and they are really watching me at work right now. So my computer access will be down to a trickle for awhile. I imagine you're going to be crazily busy, too.
Your party is getting a lot of love on Tribes, I hear. All this writing about hoops is cutting into my hooptime, god forbid. I enjoyed this! Thanks for being you…Susan
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Kaos to Sierra:
and there off... ...rounding the first turn it's hoopsydaisy but hot on her heels hulahulahula gains as they go into the second turn with hoopy days comming up round the outside past the clubhouse and its hulahoopsyhoopy all neck n neck...photo finish
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Sierra to Kaos:
THEY'RE HERE!!!! And it's a photo finish!
But the dumbass photographer has to do some mandatory overtime. I didn't notice until I was pulling out of my drive this morning, that I had a happy surprise on my doorstep.
Someone had called my cell last night....I left it on like a dork and my 'Breaking Bad' theme ringtone town-cryer'd through the radio room. I'm guessing it was your bro.
I sent a quick text back to Kelly and he phoned me right back. I'm afraid I was rather unintellingably enthusiastic. I do apologize. Try to think of it as gratitude. :) Busy busy over here, too. I like it. Makes me feel like I'm needed and alive. I'm thinking I'll save some details and maybe some photos for a Hooping forum blog post, time I catch mah bref.
When I was a kid, my most exciting dream was to find a baby on my doorstep. Stop laughing. :) Well, thanks to you and your fairy godmother and team of heroes, you made it come true. Only eleven more hours till I can see them again......"Best Regards" as we say in aviation…Susaan
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Kaos to Sierra:
Susan you are welcome! I am still laughing despite your directive to stop...
Now suppose when you have a happy Surprise on your doorstep next time don't be shocked when she rings the doorbell and drags you out to hoop on the lawn. Perhaps we'll get her in diapers and bottle in hand. Then it would be almost like your dream...though a bassinet that big may be hard to heft.
I can't stop laughing thinking about your ringtone terrorizing the tower. Nice save btw. Call me when you have a minute...for a few special instructions on the hoops. I may or may not have stopped laughing by then...probably not as it just seems to be gaining in gigglenesss..peace..k
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Sierra to Kaos:
Fantastic.
Thanks for letting me see this. I'm looking forward to disseminating this to people who should see it but don't know it yet.
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Kaos to Sierra:
how do you like the hoops? i was in a hurry and am sorry there not my best...but i did put lots of love in them despite the chaotic tape job.
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Sierra to Kaos:
I can't tell you how much. I wanted to show you, but Molly wasn't home before I had to leave for work again… pictures forthcoming with any luck.
I love them all, but there's something really powerful about the globe-colored ones. And the stickers! Chaotic is good. It goes with the colors-of-the-world theme. Yes, I can feel the love. And the rush job. And something even better - fun. No one but the child of addicts knows just how hard it is to have fun.
Did you ever hear that Buddhist fable about the guy who has to stay home and make soup while the other knights got to storm the castle? ('not yet' would be the answer to that) A star appeared on his sheild while he was stirring the soup. You and Hooping Annie have that gift. I envy my homies who left for BM but I feel like those hoops are the star on my soup, I mean, shield.
Giving them away is going to be great. I'll let Hooping.org know how it goes. And I would have told you immediately how much I love them, how I know all my neighborhood kids and my son will love them, but I'm busy and I know you're even more so.
Attached is a Photographer's Conception of hoop-gifts as they looked when I finally got home this morning.
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Kaos to Sierra:
love the photographers(husband?) work...and yours too. because it was you that reached out for a child and i know it will be rewarded tenfold when you see the look on that kids face when handing her a hoop...it's better than crack! and twice as addicting...
i'm glad you like them and know you'll do good stuff with them...i was a little out of practice and wanted their quality better. though they should be plenty sound otherwise...near indestructible...like the good in all of us just hooping to get out. thanks and well catch up soon…best regards (i like that)…namaste…k
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