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Sunday, December 27, 2009

we survived christmas!

here is maya's scene, created with legos and hand-painted and carved wooden ostheimer dolls (her big xmas gift, to help her remember her first preschool.
407 pieces of violent pretend play. i just read michael chabon's book of essays, manhood for amateurs, and there is a great part about legos, how these kits with massive books of step-by-step directions took some creativity away, but how the legos end up being used by the kids imaginatively as the 407 piece creations eventually break down and get reused by characters such as huge wooden princesses posing as galactic senators.
maya sticking spruce tree trimmings in pink playdough. this morning she woke up and told me, mommy you are so cute, you are as cute as a little mouse. i don't know why she tells me nice things every morning but i like it.
the bandstand at fort mason, made from debris in the bay. wish i had a microscope on my computer to read the white panel that explains more. we saw the young performers theater version of the little prince which was a little creepy and long-winded and prompted distractin g bugs bunny-like kisses from miles' buddy near the end of the show. fort mason also host to my new favorite bookstore, the book bay, as well as the renegade craft fair where i scored a jill bliss from oregon bear poster.
the tortured artist at work.

the michael chabon essays were inspiring (thank you mom) in their coherence and in their closeness to my own thoughts. i guess what i feel inspired to do is to carve some time out to focus my mind a little and write some of it down. not right now though, but soon. ha, how is that for lame procrastination! i feel inspired, but not inspired enough to do anything about it. i guess i will blame this day of 407 lego pieces, of cooking meals, of swiffing crazy-ass amounts of debris off the floor, of taking maya to the zoo, of playing basketball with miles, of reading kids to sleep, of reading inspiring essays and now of sending photos to you, dear reader, to let you see what i see.

xo

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paca said...

what is with these wacky comments????
Glad you liked Chabon's book, he read from it here in Sonoma, and it reminded me a bit of your blog.
xoxoxo

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