encounters

the other night three men joined the house. they are all (or were) police officers who volunteer for an organization called pointman. i mentioned them in a previous post. jan (yan), the jolly stout man from s. africa and i have been taking walks in the afternoon exploring what is to be explored. two days ago, we headed down the street and came to a home where jack lived. we met jack but at first he was a little shy. he would hang around and peer behind people or run away when we got close but eventually he warmed up to us. at one point jan held his camera close to take a picture and jack grabbed for the camera and jumped on jan's back and then promptly climbed on his head. at this point he was no longer interested in the camera but in the possibility of lice in jan's hair. soon he was on my head doing the same. as you have probably guessed, jack is a monkey.