Month: January 2006
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What happens when stupid white people doodle on their napkins at the dining table after Thanksgiving Dinner
Wow! Imagine yourself riding the Flaming Arrow Express monorail at the proposed Trail of Tears Park in Tennessee. Imagine yourself visiting the Sacred Ground Pavilion. Imagine yourself in the seats of the Great Spirit Arena. What an amazing memorial it will be honoring those American Indians who walked the Trail of Tears from the southeast…
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The spring which is our bathroom (Category, this old apartment building)
Well, we will call the landlord again tomorrow with the news that it is very nice our sink now drains but that tearing out that part of the wall and replacing a corroded joint did not fix the flooding. Because the bathroom flooded again today and this time I was able to catch it in…
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Stupid lost skills department
I’m wondering tonight about idiosyncratic skills people pick up naturally and what might belong or have belonged to some individuals reading. The second place Marty and I lived after we were married was a second floor in a house that had a screened porch. We had no air conditioning of course, the house was ancient…
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The drone bee that wasn't kicked out in the cold
H.o.p. was mortified when he learned that drone bees are kicked out of the hive to die. In tonight’s story-play-game he is a drone bee who has made himself useful by making a map of the hive (so bees can find their way to the nursery etc.) and protecting the hive from intruders. He is…
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Stream of consciousness story-telling
The line that most stood out in H.o.p.’s stream-of-consciousness story last night (I get at least an hour of stories like this a day). He blends his stories with actions he is making. I was washing dishes. He came in and got yogurt from the refrigerator, in the middle of the relation of a Space…
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Physics
H.o.p. carries his huge stack of drawing paper from the living room to his computer table. He drops part of it. “Stupid gravity!” he exclaims. “I hate gravity!” He frequently complains about gravity and says he wishes it didn’t exist. I did not complain about gravity when I was his age. Sitting on the desk…
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The bathroom floor needed washing
Well, I’d say we did admirably with our bathroom sink for three years. The landlord said it was slow draining and he wasn’t joking. Slow draining as in you run a little water and then cut it off and it takes a long time to drain that little bit of water. Which is a pain.…
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Without country
Last night at around 3 AM I was looking at a photo of an Iraqi man holding up to the camera eye a dead baby in diapers. I always wake up a couple of hours after I go to sleep and I get up and drink some water and read a little or work a…
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Bigger, smaller –"Alice in Wonderland" science
Ah, the travails and uncertainties of homeschooling. This chapter I’m naming “Alice in Wonderland” science. We’re listening to “Carmina Burana” this morning, an old favorite of H.o.p.’s, because it was used in a video at a website on the “4th Revolt”, which I came across via Pen Elayne. The idea over at the 4th Revolt…
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Snow Princess Three
Midnight and velvet straps and gold foil stars Snow Princess Three Digital painting, 8.73 h by 18.19 in w 2006-2007 Lightbox enlargement Snow Princess Three, Version 2
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King Coal
Many years ago a guy showed up in our lives, a musician, had the art side of it all down cold, played in an Athens-Atlanta band but wasn’t really too much a part of the music scene, who hired my husband to engineer and produce some of his redos of Johnny Cash songs. He had…
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Snow Princess Two
Snow Princess Two 2006 8 h by 17 in wDigital Painting © copyright Jk Lightbox enlargement