An anonymous and educational love letter forwarded from Cape Town
with photos of Hira Lesea’s sweet blue bike in Northern Italy

This might come in handy Daisy Miller,

Did you know during  the Second Boer War, a Boer force attempting to sneak up on the Royal Canadian Dragoons was defeated after their movements startled the nearby springbok, alerting the Royal Canadian Dragoons.

Sashka just left a bit ago. You can see the uneasiness in her face and the cracks of her voice creeping inches away from despair. I can not blame her, the transition from school to adulthood is not quite what we all accept.  She misses you terribly, I hate when she brings you up but I play along, even sometimes catch myself getting caught in the moment. Its actually quite refreshing though, talking of you, it brightens everything, reminding my taste buds of when a sugar packet is ripped and poured into ice tea. You were the glue of many things amongst your crew, I admire that with deep rooted respect. You can see in all of them the twinkle not shining as bright with you so far away from them, but that is not what this is about. Sashka will be fine and so will you, sometimes we forget that as we forget many things. My ADHD needs to stay on cue.

The Royal Canadian Dragoons have the Springbok as their cap badge and as their Mascot. In fact the Springbok is a national symbol in South Africa. Symbols are important in representing ideals including the self. They say Al Queda is now in Africa, I say Africa has a bigger problem. DAISY MILLER is in Africa. Like that poor continent does not have enough problems! Ha ha ha I joke I joke, I kid I kid.

“Springboks often go into bouts of repeated high leaps (up to 4m or 12 feet) into the air in a practice known as “pronking” (Afrikaans: pronk = to show off) or “stotting.” While pronking, the springbok leaps back into the air as soon as it comes down, with its back bowed and the white fan lifted. While the exact cause of this behavior is unknown, springboks exhibit this activity when they are nervous or otherwise excited. One theory is that pronking is meant to indicate to predators that they have been spotted. Another is that springboks show off their individual strength and fitness so that the predator will go for another (presumably weaker) member of the group. Another opinion is that Springboks and other similar antelopes do this to spray a hormone that is secreted from a gland near the heel. When the chase from a predator is finished, the Springboks can find their ways back to that original grazing area where they started.

I just watched the Springboks beat Australia in rugby on satellite. I stayed up just to watch the game. South Africa won 19-16. South African flanker Pierre Johan Spies said after scoring the winning tri in overtime, “I ran like a true springbok today, I could not let them catch me, so much was going through my head – but all I could think about was  keep running, keep running like a springbok.”

One day you might have a chance to run like a springbok, the question is if that day arrived would you have consciously known it.

One day you might have a chance to run with the springbok. This day might not be in your past or is it your present, you know this cali weed, man oh man now I am confused…

Safe Journeys

PS: Let’s try and not show this to anyone, it is from me to you and you only. One day you should understand.

GO SPRINKBOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good night, Daisy Miller

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