Work Day at Chateau L'Orange - Slideshow!

Happy Birthday Ellen

Happy Birthday Ellen, teacher and mentor to many, mother of Rami, founder and patron saint of Chateau L'Orange.

Today

it's

steak

for

breakfast!

Blue balloon may be fading, but blue pot is exploding with new life! Ellen's poppies make a comeback
...spring is here!

Storytime

Kele reads from The Phantom Tollbooth

a poem for the inauguration

All My Life I've Been Waiting

All my life I've been waiting

for something unusual to happen.

I may yet come into a windfall,

a National Endowment of the Hearts.

All my life I've been expecting

a grand finale, an awakening,

love erupting in the streets,

in the bars, in classrooms,

everyone dropping their guard,

their pants, their skirts,

cops weeping tenderly

as they snap off your cuffs,

bankers giving away their money,

politicians telling the truth,

literary critics confessing

that they know nothing about writing or life.

All my life I've been waiting

for something unusual to happen.

Harold Norse
BENIDORM, SPAIN, 1956

Chateau Life 3

Are you there, Moriarty?...

Adam vs. Fabio. Rushkin as referee, insuring a clean fight.







Sacia vs. Raheemah



Addie vs. Kele



Yael vs. Rami

This is Ram's dapper dad, Jean. He appears often in Chateau photos, but sadly he couldn't make last night's house dinner.

Here we hold an impromptu rehearsal for A Very Jug Band Solstice Special, coming in June.

small yet chic:

We made a toast to honorary Chateau resident Chichi, who was conspicuously absent last night. She will be living in Mexico for a few months. We love her!!!!

A time of Transition

Well...
Blue Balloon has been with us since that night in November, three months ago, when President Obama was elected.
It has seen many things in its extraordinarily long life... witnessed history...
It was looking forward to seeing the first Balloon-American president in its lifetime, but now it looks like that might not happen.
I don't know how much longer Blue Balloon will be with us, but I promise that in its last days it will be surrounded by the love and warmth of Chateau L'Orange.

-rami

The barack hussein obama inauguration adventure

Sorry it's taken a bit of time to compose this but it's been crazy since we've returned.On January 19Th Rami,Kele and I flew to Washington D.C. to be witnesses to the swearing in of our first African American President Barack Hussein Obama. Boy that's a mouth full. We stayed with a friend of Rami's Sahara Moon. (She is awesome!) I'm just going to add pictures and captions elaborating if I feel the need.
-Raheemah