H.o.p. had a busy Saturday and Sunday at Atlanta’s Jazz Festival with his dad, seeing Jaspects and Julie Dexter, Airto and Flora Purim, and Bobby Hutcherson. I didn’t go along as I was otherwise occupied, but they had a great time and H.o.p. ran and ran and ran and ran and came home complaining about how sweaty he was.<\/p>\n
Later we sat down to attempt to memorize the “To Be or Not To Be” soliloquy. Why? I don’t know why as we’re not Shakespeare nuts here, but the other night H.o.p. announced that he wanted to learn it. Which means teaching him what it means.<\/p>\n
And so we got to work.<\/p>\n
H.o.p. began, “To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether tis nobler, in the mind, to suffer a series of unfortunate events…”<\/p>\n
Yes, yes, much like that, but it’s not quite right, H.o.p. Though that’s a good substitute and I like it very much.<\/p>\n
H.o.p. began, “To be or not to be, that is the question. Whether tis nobler, in the mind, to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, and the unfortunate egg…”<\/p>\n
And he drops a plastic egg on my head, laughing uncontrollably and pleased with his sense of humor.<\/p>\n
So was I, to tell the truth. But not after the tenth time.<\/p>\n
“To be or not to be. The end!” and he flung himself on the ground, again pleased with his sense of humor.<\/p>\n
Eventually, he was able to learn the first several lines.<\/p>\n
“It has a lot of exclamation points,” he remarked.<\/p>\n
And the occasional, unfortunate egg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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