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[tunafishjournal]

Happy Hour Luau at the Nursing Home

Glossy hibiscus on your ear & flip flops shuffle, 

we creep to the luau, my arm linked with yours. 

We are daring & forgo our walkers. At the door 

of the rec room, we put on the magenta & crumpled 

leis, & settle into the plastic chairs to watch those 

who might move & sway to the music. We savor 

the punch. Your neurons don’t fire like they used 

to, & you forget words at times, but we enjoy the 

misshapen hats & background ukulele music. 

Beyond the smell of disinfectant, we search our 

scattered memories of a younger you & me, like 

catching fireflies on a bright evening. There were 

days we covered ourselves with a soft blanket 

on an emerald riverbank watched the birds 

play & spiral against canvas clouds. 

Those days bejewel this night.

- Lynn Finger, TFJ Issue One: Celebrations

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[eesti15]

Tartu, the second largest city of Estonia, is even more popular than Tallinn among students. The university was founded in 1632 by a Swedish King, and is one of the oldest in this area of Europe.

On May 1st a yearly procession of the korporatsioon (student cooperations) took place. They marched through the old town of the city, to the city hall, where the principal (in the middle of the small picture) gave a small speech to the students. A famous symbol is the “kissing students” statue, where two students get close under an umbrella in the rain. Of course there was also an reenactment of this with the students. After the official ceremony, almost every student went out and celebrated in Tartu. So it was a lot of fun.