{"id":67762,"date":"2021-06-27T13:52:08","date_gmt":"2021-06-27T13:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=67762"},"modified":"2021-06-27T13:52:08","modified_gmt":"2021-06-27T13:52:08","slug":"you-are-too-old-to-go-in-a-plane-by-capt-elmo-jayawardena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/you-are-too-old-to-go-in-a-plane-by-capt-elmo-jayawardena\/","title":{"rendered":"You are too old to go in a plane-by Capt Elmo Jayawardena"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #42d47c;\">You are too old to go in a plane-<span style=\"color: #008080;\">by Capt Elmo Jayawardena<\/span><\/span><\/h1>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-52682 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Capt-Elmo-Jayawardena.jpg\" alt=\"Capt Elmo Jayawardena\" width=\"150\" height=\"216\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">I have this dear little friend, two feet two inches tall and 30 months old <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">and very closely connected to me, being my daughter\u2019s daughter.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The little vagabond was all excited as the foursome of her brother and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">parents were travelling on holiday.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cI\u2019m going to the Australia,\u201d she proudly announces to me.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cHow are you going? Are you walking?\u201d that is a typical Seeya question, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">simply to annoy the brat.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cI am going by plane.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cWhat are you going to do there?\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cI go to beach.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">All that she had gathered from the elder talk, she certainly had no clue <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">as to who or what \u201cthe Australia\u201d is.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cCan I come with you?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><!--more--><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cYou can\u2019t, you are too old to go in a plane.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Doesn\u2019t that say it all? Forty plus years of punching holes in the sky and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">this little Rumplestiltskin shoots me down and grins at me as if she <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">alone knows the truth about how old this gray bearded pelican is.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Yes, that is life, as beautiful as can be when one has the blessing and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">the privilege of associating grandchildren and spending quality time <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">with them.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">You have to catch them young, in the midget mode before their legs <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">grow longer and their infant wisdom gets corrupted by day to day <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">delusions plus computer and TV megalomagic that eats away the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">innocence. In no time they too join the rest of the \u201cknow all\u2019 brigade <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">who refuse to suffer \u2018seemingly\u2019 old fools. This is the inheritance of the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cold club\u201d and I am fast travelling on the road for full membership and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">want to make the best with this little ragamuffin whenever I can.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">I bought her a watch from a \u201cone dollar\u201d shop which she proudly wears and tells<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67763\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/The-little-Ragamuffin.jpg\" alt=\"The little Ragamuffin\" width=\"462\" height=\"335\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff0000;\">\u201cThe little Ragamuffin\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">everyone it is a gift from <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">her Seeya. I made a pact <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">with her and signed an <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">agreement. It was for <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">something I was reading, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cThe history of the Arab <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">People\u201d by Hourani. We <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">both agreed that the book <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">will be for her when I am<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">gone and I wrote \u201cthis is for Lisara, her inheritance\u201d and signed and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">placed the date as 10th October 2010 and she countersigned by <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">scrawling all over the page with her signature.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Contract made, Hourani\u2019s masterpiece kept on the shelf to be collected <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">when she is old enough to read.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">I like to think that one day when she is in the Revlon gloss and eye <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">shadow stage, perhaps mini skirt or long dress, whatever the fancy of <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">the era be, she might take this book and remember a dear old friend<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cThe little Ragamuffin\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">who is no more and perhaps browse the pages and think of the times <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">we shared. It is a nice thought for me to carry, as I don\u2019t think I would <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">be there to see her in lipstick and mascara. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Of course there are many other things I share with her, inexpensive and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">quality, available often if I find the time. Rowing in a canoe down a slow <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">dancing river where she sits on my lap and we both feel we own the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">entire world. It is simply us and the river and we know the blue sky is <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">ours, the clouds sailing overhead are ours, the birds belong to us and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">even the little waves that slap on the boat become our friends as they <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">come to say hello. That\u2019s what you can tell a kid, and she believes. It is <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">the marshmallow time of her life that I am blessed to share. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cThe wind Seeya, where is he coming from?\u201d Hard call, too bad they <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">didn\u2019t teach me that in aviation schools. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cIt\u2019s from the mountains darling, that is where he lives, he comes to <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">loaf and touch your face and ruffle your hair and go back home in the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">night.\u201d She nods, point taken.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">We go to a basketball court and we dribble, a kid chasing an old man to <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">the rhythm of a bouncing ball. She loves to press buttons in a lift, as <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">high as she can reach. I tried to make her climb a tree but she got <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">scared and clung to me, wasn\u2019t very happy on Tarzan talk. Of course I <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">taught her to sing, lullabies and then \u201csomewhere over the rainbow.\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">She held the tune and sang her version where the skies were boo. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The best is when she brings me paper and says \u201cSeeya, make me an <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">aeroplane.\u201d I fold and shape and the makeshift rockets fly and glide.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The little diamond eyes sparkle and we become aviators together, the <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">one washed up and the other a possible \u201cmaybe.\u201d Yes, that is life, I call <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">her every day from where I teach and she always asks \u201cSeeya are you in <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">school teaching fools?\u201d Innocent and warm and we both laugh. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Some nights I peep into her room and watch her sleep, silent and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">serene, like a little angel, perhaps dreaming of eating Smarties or <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">cupcakes that I buy for her. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">Life is like a book, the chapters are so many, long ones and short ones, <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">some are happy and some are sad. Some we remember and recall <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">touching nostalgic chords and some we try our best to erase and fail.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">The blacks and the whites are all there, a few pastel shades too, that\u2019s <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">what life is all about. Grandfather granddaughter chapters rate among <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">the best, honey coloured and laced with tangerine, less words but more<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">for the memory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67764 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/Lisara-at-8-and-her-friend-the-Old-Man.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"473\" height=\"359\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #ff0000;\">\u201cLisara at 8 and her friend the Old Man\u201d<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Maybe she will remember <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">the time we spent <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">together. I certainly <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">would as I do not have <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">long to go and what<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">happens in life now is <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">mainly ambitionless <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">residual. But I am glad I <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">have her, to tell me things <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">like I am teaching fools and I am too old to go in a plane. <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">That\u2019s great, it makes me aware that I must count each day and make<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">the best, and be grateful that I have Smarties and cupcakes to buy and <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">make paper planes and row boats and own the sky.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">\u201cLisara at 8 and her friend the Old Man\u201d<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">My role as grandfather is great. My little friend sure is a handful of love <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">and mischief, but she is constantly colouring with crayons what little <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">rainbows I am blessed to see.<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">I hope I\u2019m colouring her\u2019s too.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 20px; color: #000000;\">elmojay@sltnet.lk<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You are too old to go in a plane-by Capt Elmo Jayawardena I have this dear little friend, two feet two inches tall and 30 months old and very closely connected to me, being my daughter\u2019s daughter. The little vagabond was all excited as the foursome of her brother and parents were travelling on holiday. 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