JOINING THE 21 CENTURY, & REMEMBERING THE PAST

HELLO ALL deVRIEZEN (TEICH's; GEISINSKY's; LEVITIN's)

YUP IT's THE PAPA. FINALLY FIGURED OUT HOW TO ACCESS THE deVRIES FAMILY BLOG (with Mama's help & tutalage).

AUGUST IS CERTAINLY AN AUSPISCIOUS MONTH. WE FONDLY REMEMBER OMI's BIRTHDAY ON AUGUST 03, 1917. DIFFICULT FOR ME TO PICTURE OMI AT 91 YEARS.
RIVKA's BIRTHDAY; HADASSAH's BIRTHDAY; AND I'm SURE I FORGOT A COUPLE OF GRANDKIDS BIRTHDAYS.
ALSO REMEMBER OPA IES MOL - BIRTHDAY & JAARZEIT AROUND SHABBOS NACHAMU. HE WAS SUCH A GENTLEMAN, & "EIDEL" MAN OF YEARS. ON HIS JAARZEIT IN SHUL FOR KADDISH, ALL REMEMBERED HIM FONDLY, AS "OPA IES "FROM HOLLAND. I WOULD HOPE TO BE ABLE TO EMULATE HIS NATURE WHEN I REACH THOSE YEARS IN LIFE. EVEN THOUGH IES & I HAD SOME (minor) DIFFERENCES EARLY ON - HE WAS TRUELY AN ELDER PATRIARCH STATESMAN THROUGHOUT OUR ENTIRE RELATIONSHIP. I STILL MISS HIS COMFORTING PRESENCE SITTING AT THE POOL WITH TIE & JACKET ON VIRGINIA Rd.

NOT TO FORGET, WHAT STARTED THIS ALL, 35 YEARS AGO, IN THE DEVENTER SHUL (ON THE LANGE BISCHOOP STRAAT- WHICH WAS CORDONED OFF ON SUNDAY & NEEDED A SPECIAL PERMIT FROM POLITIE FOR THE LIMO) ON AUGUST 19, 1973 - WHEN THE MAMA & PAPA HAD CHUPPAH PERFORMED BY THE AMSTERDAM CHAZZEN HANS BLOEMDENDAAL & MESADAR KEDUSHIN BORROWED FROM THE PORTUGESE ISRAELITEN SYNAGOGE IN AMSTERDAM, RABBI DRUKARCH. THE SHUL HAD'nt HAD A CHUPPAH IN YEARS, & PREPERATIONS BY THE MOL's WERE ALL ARRANGED TO POLISH THE SILVER & SET UP THE (UNUSED) SHUL. WE HAD THE "RECEPTIE" IN THE DEVENTER IJSBAN LODGE (ICE SKATING RINK IN DEVENTER), AND HAD THE EVENT KOSHER (COLD CUTS, ETC.) CATERED FROM AMSTERDAM - FORGOT THE NAMEOF THE ELDERLY CATERERS FROM A'DAM. OF COURSE THE VAN BEETZ's WERE THERE. FLOWER ARRANGEMENTS WERE DONE BY (GENTILE) FRIENDS "OOM COOR". THERE I WAS AL BEDECKT IN TOPHAT, TAILS, & WHITE GLOVES. I DIDN't REALLY APPRECIATE AT THE TIME, HOW WE WERE A PART OF HOLLANDSE JOODSE HISTORY. WE HAD OUR 'HONEYMOON' IN CORK, IRELAND. IF ANYONE WANTS THE FUNNY DETAILS OF THAT TRIP, YOU HAVE TO ASK THE MAMA.
YEP, IT's 35 YEARS AGO, AND WOW, LOOK AT US NOW - KEIN HAYIN HORA.

DUE TO LIFE's TACTITURN, I've ALSO STARTED LEARNING AN ENTIRELY NEW WORLD OF COMPUTER & STOCK OPTIONS TRADING. SO MANY NEW CONCEPTS AND TECHNOLOGIES. I'm PLUGGING FORWARD, AND AM POSITIVE IN LEARNING AND STUDYING. YOU CAN LOOK IT UP AT: OPTIONETICS.COM. GIVES YOU SOME IDEA.
HAVE ALSO PROCURED A WIRELESS LAPTOP, SO THAT I CAN SIT OUTSIDE ON THE PATIO; DO HOMEWORK & RESEARCH; SMOKE - AND NOT DISRUPT MAMA FROM HER INTERNET CONNECTIONS.

THAT's ABOUT IT FROM ME.
LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING ALL FOR YOMIM NAROIM.

GROETJES
POP