Colors

Colors

A Poem by Lev 2007

Scarlet is a bleeding wound,
Silver is a nice old spoon,
Brown is an old oak tree,
Red is old cherry Jelly,
Yellow is a bird's belly,
Orange is a clown that's silly
Purple ham is quite smelly,
Copper is someone's lost penny,
Black is someone's hair,
Green people really don't care
I hate colors do you too?

Jaal

A Tribute to his Brother

More of Lev's writings, songs

He was creative, but I'm not sure if these are song lyrics or written by Lev.

Father's Day 2010

Last year, on Father's Day, we were getting ready for cousin Ariel's wedding.
We staying in some cabins along the beach, and Lev had a great time hanging out with family. Jaal had just left to travel down to California with his friends. I went up to the wedding site to help get ready and Lev stayed behind with his cousins. They made Father's Day cards and drawings.
Tony and I got back from helping and we were all hungry. We had set up a buffet with sandwich makings, and Tony was getting his food. Lev had shoved a couple papers next to the garbage to the side of the table. As Tony started to get his lunch, Lev said, "Can you get that stuff for me?" Tony said, "No, can't you see my hands are full? You have to wait or get it yourself." Lev left the cabin, angry. We weren't sure where he went.
We discovered that the papers were a Father's Day card and a drawing. He was trying to make it a surprise. We couldn't find Lev, but figured he was hanging out with someone.

We ate our lunch, and then began to look for Lev. We needed to get changed and go back to the wedding site. We tried to figure out if he went with someone else, but his suit was still back in our cabin. We looked and looked. I took the road and Tony took the beach path. We were starting to get worried when Tony found Lev. He had fallen asleep on the beach. He was only 20 feet from where we had been eating lunch, but he was behind a wall and we didn't see him. He had stayed up late at a campfire the night before, and was exhausted.

Tony and Lev went back and got the Father's Day card and picture, and "made up" and had a nice walk back to the cabin to get changed for the wedding.

From Laura Goertzel

From Cousin Laura 

One lovely summer day when Lev was around 5 years old many of the
Seattle-area Goertzels met up for a walk around Greenlake.  Penn
pulled up to the designated meeting area in his brand-new electric
car.  Jaal and Lev were eager to go for a ride in it and Penn was
eager to oblige them. When they got back, they excitedly reported the
details of their trip.  "When Penn turned on his car it sounded like
this" - then Lev made a big show of firmly shutting his mouth;
indicating that the Prius was very quiet. "When Penn stopped at the
red light it sounded like this" and he again closed his mouth to
indicate that the sound was that there was no sound at all.  It was
very cute and I am reminded of this story now whenever I am driving
our Prius and think the car has stalled because it really is so quiet.

Attached are some pictures from 2006, at a family party in Woodland Park.