PICKIN’ UP PAW-PAWS…
WHILE most would, like one version goes, “put em’ in your pockets,” for whatever paw-paws are saved — I mean, really, maybe it’s just a children’s song — until I came across Bill Beatty and Jan Runyan’s “WV Nature” website, believe it or not, about Paw-Paws — https://wvbirder.wordpress.com/2019/1.... Total coincidence, serendipity, simultaneity! One of those rare “ah-ha” moments when something hardly worth noticing suddenly becomes an all-encompassing Mental Marquee Message flashing on and off like a strobe momentarily highjacking all one’s myriad thoughts and collective attention. Flash! Strobe! Like fireworks.
Okay, so there are Paw-Paws and one can literally put them in one’s pocket (or basket if you’re still “lookin’ for Susie”). But have you ever heard the rest of the ditty? Like the ScoutSongs.com version where, indeed, everyone IS looking for Susie: The second to the last chorus is “She’s the Queen of Old Hawai’i,” the last chorus being “She can teach you how to hulu” — https://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/paw.... The Queen of Hawai’i? And while hulu is clearly NOT in reference to the ancient Hawaiian dance of close-sounding name, the hula, I also don’t think it’s a hidden commercial for Hulu’s contemporary TV streaming service. Rather it, “hulu,” supposedly refers to a gourd. Beyond that, your guess is as good as mine!
“Once, Twice, Thrice…even Quice” coincident, serendipitous and simultaneous I ask, as I write this from, yes, Old Hawai’i (well at least from Honolulu, the NEW Old Hawai’i), and with all that coincidence, serendipity and simultaneity, I must mention two other oddities: Bill Beaty’s photo of a West Virginia Paw-Paw grove looks awfully tropical. And that, low and behold, we DO have Paw-Paws in Hawai’i, where they’re simply called papayas. Yum.
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Okay, so there are Paw-Paws and one can literally put them in one’s pocket (or basket if you’re still “lookin’ for Susie”). But have you ever heard the rest of the ditty? Like the ScoutSongs.com version where, indeed, everyone IS looking for Susie: The second to the last chorus is “She’s the Queen of Old Hawai’i,” the last chorus being “She can teach you how to hulu” — https://www.scoutsongs.com/lyrics/paw.... The Queen of Hawai’i? And while hulu is clearly NOT in reference to the ancient Hawaiian dance of close-sounding name, the hula, I also don’t think it’s a hidden commercial for Hulu’s contemporary TV streaming service. Rather it, “hulu,” supposedly refers to a gourd. Beyond that, your guess is as good as mine!
“Once, Twice, Thrice…even Quice” coincident, serendipitous and simultaneous I ask, as I write this from, yes, Old Hawai’i (well at least from Honolulu, the NEW Old Hawai’i), and with all that coincidence, serendipity and simultaneity, I must mention two other oddities: Bill Beaty’s photo of a West Virginia Paw-Paw grove looks awfully tropical. And that, low and behold, we DO have Paw-Paws in Hawai’i, where they’re simply called papayas. Yum.
#DanielSJanik #papaya #paw #pawpaw #tree #Children #Song #coincidence #serendipity #simultaneity #AhHa #moment #Queen #Hawaii #hulu #hula #gourd #Hawaiian #papaya #tropical #tree #fruit #author #actor
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