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H.o.p. instructs me on art and I give just a tad return instruction
Every little budding artist is eventually struck by realism, at least for a period of time. H.o.p. tonight was looking at a drawing of two Egyptian women embracing, an older and a younger woman, in a story of his, and he was struck by the realism of the illustration. He decided to tell me about…
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H.o.p. is packing
H.o.p. is packing. No, he hasn’t decided to run off. He wants to go on an airplane. I explained to him we aren’t going to be riding on any airplanes any time in the forseeable future. “That’s all right. I want to be prepared.” So he gets out one of his knapsacks and starts packing…
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H.o.p. on H2O
So I was on the phone telling Marty to pick up water on the way home. Me: We need water. H.o.p.: We need H2O. Me (being dyslexic): We need HT0. H.o.p. No, we need H2O. I’ll tell you what H2O means. It means there’s one H and 2 oxygens and when they stick together they…
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H.o.p. still blithely unaware of the attitude it takes to run with the herd
H.o.p.: I wish I had a t… dollars. Me: You wish you had what? H.o.p.: I wish I had a t… (mumble) dollars. Me: You wish you had what, a trillion or ten dollars? H.o.p.: I wish I had ten dollars. Me: Oh, OK.
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Howard Hughes and his Kleenex box shoes?
OK, so the night before last we finally watched “The Aviator”. And afterward I went around the net reading up a little more on him, most all of which turned out to be the same few facts repeated over and over again. Seems no one could give an account of his four plane crashes in…
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The Cadence Chamber Duet – Just in case you think Baroque isn’t exciting
At the moment I’m listening to the most extraordinary CD. It’s the Cadence Chamber Duet. She is Olena Yergiyeva, the violin part of the team. He is Ivan Yergiyev, and he plays the accordion. I don’t always listen to music while writing because though music can fuel it can also falsely substitute mood which isn’t…
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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.…