The Fountain of Youth playing out on the grass courts of Wimbledon England, and on the Apache Indian reservation ofmiddle America. In both instances, Roger Federer and NovakDjokovic demonstrating their tensioned agony of a five set final, while retired Apache Chief Geronimo, reminisces outside his tent, about his role selling blankets at the Flagstaff, Arizona train station, his basal metabolism up to the task of blanketing the gringos off the Santa Fe line and Union Pacific’s City of Los Angeles, in from the Windy City’s hub.. .…..
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Although the Pounce Deleon expedition by the Spanish explorer, established the first known FUNTAIN OF YOUTH on our minor planet, it wasn’t until “Born Yesterday” July 6, 2014, when Biography was made.
The Guinness book of records rethinking their thinking…. Itwasn’t Vasco de Gama, was it? It was Ralph Deleon and his 20thcentury mom and brother, blanketing the lawn of the North Hollywood Recreation and Parks: library, pool and tennis courts, that gave rise to a their generational patrimony.
THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH many ancestral tumblers ago inPounce Deleon’s Disneyland of Florida, 1493....
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Who are the Deleon(s)? To shake up the Guinness records? Rewrite the books? On line, smart phone, apps you name it, sending shock waves thru cyber space…
1492 Christopher Columbus was given the nod for his New World expedition. School kids memorizing their hero’s viajo….“In 1492 Columbus….”
The Fountain of Youth is a different sort of discovery, isn’t it, dear reader...
“ Yes indeed, mum”. Surmounting the Inquisition by a rising star. Born in poverty, a k a the barrio in East Los Angeles. Freaking out the La Brea Saber Tooth Tiger licks, in the boot of the City of Angels..
The turbulence by Pounce Deleon, his ancestry 5-6 centuries later..
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May all the options and possibilities beyond apps and smart phones : electronics used for tumbling the Fountain of Youththru the centuries..
Therefore hence thus the Pounce Deleon “Born Yesterday” of the North Hollywood park reality scene is obligatory. To program tablets for rethinking Maimonides’s flight fromCordoba to Egypt. Francisco Goya’s depiction of thoseyesterdays in the Museo del Prado , Madrid.
Amelia Earhart’s golden fleece stature at the park’s Southerncorner , the library tennis courts pool beyond her sleek flight suit.
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So in this sneak preview, the Spanish explorer Pounce Deleon was born into an immortal moment of personal discovery.Never knowing what was playing out, long before Cyber Space and the electronic circuitry, the Havana Cuba, Puerto Rico, Haiti, Dominican Republic, and Juan Pounce De Leon: 1493 the second expedition to the New World.
Little did Ralph Deleon tell us in his role as the swimming coach at Birmingham High in Van Nuys, relate the origins of hisDeleon.
Sure you had Harry Boykoff’s (Jefferson High School, StJohns)l son in the attendance mix.. And a future Olympian,breaking all the records, swimming for the gold….
”I could always become a dentist”.
But the FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH……... A transcendental moment of divinity.
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Summing up these North Hollywood and Van Nuys tangents, a symposium at Milk and Honey’s cafe across the Continent.The Philadelphian amigo of** Zero Mostel , the New Yorksimpatico of the Deleon(s)….the storehouse of metamorphosis,fraught with calumny and insight. “ Dorian Gray” on themenu…….
The placards “Feed your soul” “Find your soul mate”
“ **“Spring time for Hitler,”** (“the Producers”)
And not to forget **“Weapons of mass destruction**”* Miami’sLe Bron James coming home, Cleveland Cavaliers.. 4 years, $ 22 million per.
In the meantime, Geronimo touting his blankets at the Flagstaff, Arizona train station.
“Unbelievable, Kimosabi.”
July 11, 2014 The City that never sleeps.
