"Who is it?" asks Moe, sitting up suddenly. "Who is it?"
"Moe -- it's me, Joe."
"You're not Joe. Joe just died."
"I'm telling you, it's me, Joe," insists the voice.
"Joe! Where are you?"
"In Heaven," replies Joe. "I have some really good news and a little bad news."
"Tell me the good news first," says Moe.
"The good news," Joe says, "is that there IS baseball in Heaven. Better yet, all of our old buddies who died
before us are here, too. Better than that, we're all young again. Better still, it's always springtime, and it
never rains or snows. And best of all, we can play baseball all we want, and we never get tired."
"That's fantastic," says Moe. "It's beyond my wildest dreams! So what's the bad news?"
"You're pitching Tuesday."
3. Anecdote of when the Colegados were in Kenya
W
hile we were at the top of a hill in Lake Nakuru National Park in Kenya, some monkeys came
close to our pickup truck. Inday Caballero got a bunch of bananas and handed it to a
monkey.
While she was doing that, she told the monkey, "Nia oh. Panghatagsaimongmgaigsoon, ha?"
Whereupon the nearest monkey grabbed the bananas and ran off to the bush with the other monkeys
in hot pursuit.
Inday shouted, "Hoy! Panghatag!"
We were all laughing inside the pickup truck for who has seen a generous monkey?* The foremost law
of the jungle was in operation! Survival of the fittest, you know.
DID YOU KNOW? MVC’s first field trip was to the newly
finished Maria Christina Hydroelectric Plant in Iligan City
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MVC Trivia from MVCiana Curator Kenji Madriaga
kenjimadriaga at gmail dot com.