Cold . . .

. . . sweet memories

(from http://articles.latimes.com/1991-11-05/news/wr-1156_1_ice-cream)
Around 50 years ago . . .  ". . . Fidel Castro ordered his ambassador to Canada to ship him 28 containers of Howard Johnson's ice cream, one of each flavor. After tasting them all, Castro declared that his Cuban revolution must produce a quality ice cream of its own. So the Communist government plunged headlong into the helado business. An ice cream factory sprang up on the highway to Havana's airport, while an abandoned hospital in the city's busy Vedado district came down to make way for one of the world's largest ice cream parlors. Cecilia Sanchez, Castro's private secretary and close companion since their guerrilla days, took charge of the enterprise and named it Coppelia, after her favorite ballet. She designed the plaid skirts worn by waitresses at the two-story parlor since its inauguration June 4, 1966. As the revolution matured, Coppelia sprouted scores of branches in cities and towns across the Caribbean island. By 1980, the year Sanchez died, it was serving more than 50 flavors, from almond to walnut. . . "

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Playground . . .

Teaching for the future . . .

One father is supervising the recreation of his young son at the neighborhood playground on a warm, sunny, spring afternoon.  The child is totally absorbed in his activities on the swing set, climbing bars and sliding board alone, in sequence and then back again. The father finds that his participation has metamorphosed from a formerly active playing partner/spotter/parent hovering around or actually physically on the equipment itself, into a passive overseer on the sidelines.  Eventually a group of four or five adolescent males tumble haphazardly down the block directly across the street from the playground. The bright, crystalline Sunday atmosphere is shattered by a harsh ringing (to the father) of a string of current and colorful profanity followed by uproarious laughter on the part of the group.  The young boy at the playground is distracted from his joyful reverie by the laughter an looks up in the direction of the young men in the distance.  The father is somewhat, but not noticeably to his son, perturbed by the events.

Should the father:

A.      Retrieve his child from the playground and march furious and determined to the group and immediately lecture the teenagers on the inappropriateness of their verbal onslaught with his son’s attention (and maybe or maybe not, his interest) captured by the unusual development but absorbing all aspects of it (including the profanity, which his father has repeated in the course of the harangue)?

B.      Quizzically and humorously suggest to his young son that, since the sound of the ice cream truck’s bells was perceived in the distant direction of home, he believed the two of them would greatly benefit from the pursuance and overtaking of that very truck with the object being the purchase and consumption of a delightfully cool and satisfying ice cream?      

(Our future depends upon your answer.)

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OHO's "Ocean City Ditty," the CD single is now available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/oho4
(and, if you're in town, at Trax On Wax on Frederick Rd. in Catonsville, MD) OHO is Jay Graboski, David Reeve & Ray Jozwiak.  Please Visit http://www.ohomusic.com 


My latest solo offering, Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak, featuring original, instrumental piano music will be released April 7, 2014  Just More Music by Ray Jozwiak

(To Access all Ray Jozwiak - Gonzo Piano music you can copy-and-paste this URL directly to
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