Whit burst in the door after school today holding this mangled dandelion in his hands. He ran to me and offered it: “Mummy! I picked this flower for you!” It was so sweet it brought tears to my eyes. Then, in classic Whit style, he peppered me with questions: “Can you guess where I got [...]
All was taken away from you: white dresses,wings, even existence.Yet I believe you,messengers. There, where the world is turned inside out,a heavy fabric embroidered with stars and beasts,you stroll, inspecting the trustworthy seams. Short is your stay here:now and then at a matinal hour, if the sky is clear,in a melody repeated by a bird,or [...]
Quotes from recent days: Whit: I don’t want to drink any more milk. I don’t want to grow up and milk will make me grow up big and strong. I want to stay a kid. Grace: Remember when Whit kept interrupting me at the haircut place? I think when he grows up and goes to [...]
Friday night Grace, Whit, and I had dinner with the Hawkins. The children had such a great time playing at the playground right next door and with Wally the golden retriever (Grace: was he named for Wall E the robot?) As usual, Jen whipped up an absolutely delicious dinner – homemade pizza, one with pepperoni [...]
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history, for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. – Aristotle When uninspired, turn to the greats … Email this post
This is a lovely poem, written by Neil Gaiman for Tori Amos’ daughter (his goddaughter). The story is that he wrote it when she was a newborn, and it was calligraphed and framed on the wall of her nursery. Apparently so many people asked for copies of it that he finally just published it. Gaiman [...]
“And in a day we should be rich!” she laughed. “I’d give it to you, the pirate gold and every bit of treasure we could dig up. I think you would know how to spend it. Pirate gold isn’t to be hoarded or utilized. It is something to throw to the four winds, for the [...]
So, yesterday afternoon Whit and I picked Grace up from school for a jam-packed afternoon of errand fun. We went to get Grace’s hair cut at Floyd’s, a nouveau-slash-old-school barber shop around the corner. As we drove there, the depth of Grace’s bad mood revealed itself. She was trying to tell me a story about [...]
Disney’s film Earth opens on April 22nd (Earth Day). And if you buy a ticket during the opening week, Disney will plant a tree in the Brazilian rain forest (considered one of the most endangered on Earth because only 7% of it remains). Email this post
My father, wise sage that he is, commented that the Obama inauguration was in equal parts about the man and about the crowd. What his inspirational effect was, and the way he brought record numbers of people out in the cold to witness history. The way people respond to Obama is as much a part [...]
