Elisabeth Sanders Bluestone

Walking around downtown

Pasadena on a shining Sunday morning

with my beamish boy,

the day of the annual carnival of crazy

costumed characters and bizarre marching

bands and such, th Doo Dah Parade,

we met her sitting on the lawn in the

great park of Pasadena, where marching

bands were practicing, sitting down on the grass,

their tubas and cornets and parade drums

resting on the greenery. She was talking

with much verve to friends, and when

I asked to take her photo, she told

me she was in a club of laughers-

that they get together weekly

just to laugh. "Laughing is good for

you, you know," she said. "It's good for

the soul." And with that she shared

a big laugh with us,

a wonderful, infectious,

genuine laugh of joy,

and as she laughed,

I took this photo.

Done