Hello from Colorado

Mumsy with Hannah


Amelia with Rador




Picture perfect!

News from Fort Collins with some gorgeous backpacking photos:

"It's been awhile since the Colorado Morgans have posted news on "The Sink", so thought I would give it a try. Here are some pics of our summer. Now autumn is upon us and on the 23rd of September, exactly, the leaves started to turn and fall! Time to get out the rakes and jump in the piles of leaves! All's well and happy here in this beautiful place.

Best wishes and love to you all. Cookie"

Baby Alert

Nathalie just had her latest visit with the midwife and it seems that "all systems are go."

Nathie is due on October 2, just a few days away.

We'll keep you all posted. Have a nice weekend!

Message from Lindy

Hey everyone!!
I've been pretty busy working and taking care of my horse at the barn, along with other things, lately. I have been trying to ride as much as possible, getting Vickie and myself into better shape. I haven't forgotten any of you, I swear. Send me an email or call me to let me know how you are doing!

Later,
Lindy

Ant mickey to get new treads . . .

Dear Family,
How beautiful to see Capucine again who I haven't seen since she came up to my knees, and then only rarely!

At Bonnie's odd request, I will expose a little info as to my upcoming hip replacements. On October 2, my left hip will hopefully be subject to a Birmingham Hip Resurfacing, a new procedure to this country that is only given to more active young people (belown 60?). Since I'm 55 and want very much to be able to sit in the "lotus" position for a good part of this visit to the realm of samsara, I am considered a candidate. However, Dr. Suresh Nayak can't guarantee the resurfacing until he gets into the nearly foot-long incision on my back side. With a Traditional Hip Replacement, I would not be able to sit and meditate, and I would have a 9 or 10 inch rod of metal to replace the sawed-off upper thigh bone. Either way, I'll still be setting off metal detectors, so I need to get to airports way ahead of time. I'll be recovering at home hopefully, and it's supposed to take 8 weeks to fully recover. About 3 months after the first one, I can get the right hip done. So I guess the next 10 months or so will be quite contemplative. Mom will be tending to me like I should be tending to her about this time in our lives. This is truly a dancer's ripening karma!

I'm confident that all will go well with this improvement of my life, but I am filling out a Living Will stating that I want a natural death (when and if it's time), without any artificial supports. I guess the most important message I would like to give to immediate family is that, if ever anything should happen to me, please be sure that I receive a Buddhist approach to death, to death itself, and a Buddhist funeral rite. I would like to be cremated. I'm sure this is nearly taboo to talk about and most of you will feel I'm being morbid, but we Americans unfortunately deny death to our great detriment.

The Buddhist treatment of the body before, during and after death is very different from what hospitals do, so please call my Teachers so they can perform the proper rites.

Ok. That's it . . . I expect to be bounding over barrels in a year! Much love to you all,
mickey

Hello from Capucine

HI ALL
Finally some pictures... 3 weeks ago, in France.
The beautiful young girl there is Daphne [Capucine's half sister] and her boy friend, Matisse and Romeo have grown a lot right?!
Kisses,
Cap

Greetings to all from Cincinnati . . . much love, mickey

Bonnie's Been Taking a Vacation from the Sink

Oh well, summer is over and we're back on to the serious stuff.

Doesn't anyone else out there have some news? Is it really so hard to post to this thing? If there are any brave souls I still offer to hold your hand and walk you through...

Well, here is the LA update:

We have a new baby Krull arriving in under three weeks!!!

Misia had her 25th birthday.





















Olivia had her 7th birthday.

Nathie had her 33rd birthday.

Tobey has a mouthful of new teeth.

Chloe has lost some!

She and Mila have been taking belly dancing classes (only in Topanga!) So they dance any time they can...




And, Janek is in Greensburg, Kansas.

You may have heard of the 2.5 mile wide Category 5 tornado that swept straight across this 1.5 square mile town this past May. They had 20 minutes warning. Janek has been asked to be part of a team to make a new "Green" Greensburg--a newly planned, sustainable town. You can see more pictures here. You don't often get a chance to work with a blank slate! Poor people.