Okay, follow me with this. It's kinda like a "back to the future," once you get to the end.
First, let's go back. On Monday a dear Shutterchancer (photo-blogger) from Germany, Philine, posted a photo of a waterboy statue in Hamburg:
Yup, that's the waterboy on the left.
[Philine's image]
That took me way back to memories from 2005 (13 years ago!) when my ex-partner, Donica, and I took a trip to Hamburg, Germany. I did a post on it then, talking about the origin of the 100 statues, painted by different artists, auctioned off to benefit the homeless. Back in 2005 I was making photo albums (instead of collages) whose links no longer work. So....
I really got motivated to bring those waterboys back to life, to not lose them forever!
That's Donica, giving scale to the size of these Johann Wilhelm Bentz (1787-1854) waterboys.
Johann was an ill-tempered bloke the kids made fun of by calling "Hummel, Hummel" (bumble bee).
Because he was carrying water, he couldn't catch them but would yell after them, "Mors, Mors,"
a Low German word translated as "Arses, Arses."
We walked around the city in 6 hours to find as many as we could.
Who knew we'd have to also look up!
We even found a modified one inside.
In those 6 hours, we found 67 of the 100 statues.
Yes, I was "collecting" even back then!
♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥
Now, zoom from 2005 to the present...and then into the future.
This past weekend we got the BIG NEWS that grandson Nicholas was accepted to Oregon.
As daughter Amy said (The Mom!), "You gotta hand it to Nicholas. One application
to only one school, the only one that mattered to him.
And (drum roll), he was accepted!
A strange mixture of pure joy, pride and panic just set in.
For now I choose pride."
Me, too!
Back last September Amy and Dennis flew Nicholas out to Oregon (from Atlanta!) to check out the University of Oregon campus in Eugene, attend a football game...and to see if Nicholas really DID still want to attend university there.
He had the chance to tour campus with an orientation group...
and immerse himself in the GO DUCKS team spirit.
Even with a bit of rain, his spirits were not dampened.
He wanted to be a student there EVEN MORE than ever.
Now we'll all be saying "GO DUCKS" forever and ever, amen.
Okay. Waterboys and Ducks. You know there's got to be a connection there somewhere...like water, of course. But wouldn't it be fun to suggest to someone that "they" come up with 100 ducks for artists to paint and auction off for something like...football concussion injuries?!
You're welcome!
