I mourn for Madeline.

I'm also immeasurably inspired by Madeline. I only recently found out she passed away, and It makes one of my life-long goals improbable now. I thought she would be fascinating to meet. Now I'll just have to seek her out in the next world.


"Of course. It's all been said better before. If I thought I had to say it better than anyone else, I'd never start. Better or worse is immaterial. The thing is that it has to be said; by me; ontologically*. We each have to say it, to say it in our own way. Not of our own will, but as it comes through us. Good or bad, great or little: that isn't what human creation is about. It is that we have to try; to put it down in pigment, or words, or musical notations, or we die."

-Madeline L'Engle 1918-2007

This will keep me going. I will continue my musings....

*Ontology-from Greek, to be. It is the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence or reality. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics. -Wikipedia

Father's Day for Richard 2009

Make a Smilebox greeting

Signs of Spring

Is it flowers? Green grass? Butterflies? No,.........Mud.



Unplug the television
And make way for an old vision
Wich will be a new vision, yes
Headliner, lay the foundation

Dig your hands in the dirt
That's right
Children play with earth
That's right

-Arrested Development (one of my favorite CD's I listened to in high school)




I never thought I'd be the kind of mom who minded a little mud. After all it's a right of passage; mud pies, gardening, finding worms, playing in the sand box. I just wish it didn't mean so much work! Cracks and crevices of shoes, carpet, jeans, hair, faucet handles, sinks, and of course cleaning the soap itself.



Reynolds will be five this week! His birthday is on the 24th. We've had quite a few conversations about the specifications of this special day. Originally the cake was to be a "tree cake...three dimensional". I was game, I'd looked up some ideas on the web. But, now the request has changed to an "ice cream cake". I was very excited about this prospect. To me that meant buying one at Dairy Queen or Cold Stone Creamery. Again, Reynolds was very specific. It is to be a cake made out of ice cream cones. We attended a baby shower where this cake had been the hit of the party. So, I will ask for help and attempt this fiasco-to-be . Remind me to post pictures of the outcome.

Tree 1. Carson 0.

Tree 1. Carson 0.

Blindfolded, Running at top speed = Bruised and scraped cheek. Scraped chin. Bloody nose. Two scrapes on the back of each hand. Wind knocked out of you. Two bruised/scraped knees. = Lesson learned.

And the answer is.....

Thank you for your participation in the Who's Who of Heath Boys....The answer is...

A. Wesley
B. Carson
C. Reynolds

All prizes will be awarded in the form of personal satisfaction in knowing that this was time well spent. I think most of you got it right, with the exception of Richard. But that's ok because I still confuse their names on a daily basis.

WesReynCar...O, be some other name!

A.
B.

C.

"O, be some other name! What's in a name?...So a [ Heath boy ] would, were he not a [ Heath boy ] called, retain that dear perfection which he owes without that title"*

This is an interactive, as well as informative blog. Let's play match that Heath baby. These pictures were all taken on the respective blessing days. All three are wearing the same outfits, and all three are tuckered out from a long day of being ooooed and awwwed over. Can you tell them apart? Take the quiz.

* William Shakespear's Romeo and Juliet

A promise is a promise.

Carson has been asking me to teach him how to make a slide show. I told him that it would be our spring break project. Today was that day; and it took all day! We decided to showcase his pictures from his 7 year-old birthday party, using Windows Movie Maker. This is good for us. To have some sort of documentation of the events in our lives. I'm not a scrapbooker (insert audible gasp!) I won't impose my philosophy on that, not here, not now. But I do love photos, and creativity...so I needed another option. This seems to be the perfect way to capture the emotions and energy of that special day.

Carson did most of this himself even the typing and spelling. I did help him find the music. He chose 'Science' for the theme of his party, which is appropriate since that consumes every waking thought for him. His favorite question posed to me on a daily basis is, "mom, what should I invent now?" A gallery of inventions will be a follow-up blog post, I promise. I need some way of cataloging the chaos that fills the art room/science lab.