Balancing Act

Circus training is probably a good way to prepare for life. What do you need to walk a tightrope? Bouyancy, balance, belief. Focus. How about clowning? An absolute understanding of the tiniest moves a body makes and what they communicate. Lion taming? Oh, right, we don't do that in circuses anymore, for good and sufficient reasons. Still. . .
Pippa and Thespia came to Cape Cod to hang out with us and be generally silly. Dweez went to Paris, himself, since he had two weeks without child presence and surely could learn some French in that time period. He called Pippa every day, to tell her how lonely he was.
"How's Daddy doing?"
"He hasn't found me a lapin yet."
We decided that they probably din't allow toy lapins to leave the country of France. Where the Coneheads were from, in the dear old SNL days. Or maybe Dweez was just not looking in the right places for toy lapins, but noone would say that to Pippa. Really.
Trey and his new squeeze came to hang out with us for a few days. Hale and Hardy were in Hawaii with BD. Would Trey ever see the boys again, once BD had two solid weeks to drip her poison in their ears? Remains to be seen.Hale sez he is no longer angry at his father, he just doesn't want to have a relationship with him. What does that mean to a 12 year old?
I started writing letters to Hale during the sultry, humid afternoons, while waiting for the tide to come in far enough for swimming. Since it's pretty clear that I'll never get to hang around in a beach house for a week or two with him, watching videos, piecing together crumbling jigsaw puzzles, eating lots of fried food and what have you - just existing, side by side - it seemed of interest to try to preserve some summer life for him. All too quickly, it fell into stories in which his mother starred as an evil witch or the mean queen of the world. Guess I'll never send those letters. No fear. He'd never get them if I did. BD has told him and the world that Trey's family has written Hale off.