I started drawing again, five minutes a day.
The girl saw the sketches in the notebook.
She added six cartoon hands with a caption.
This
is a
proper
hand,
not
Daddy’s!
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opposition
in small matters
good fortune
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My hand is the closest organic model at the desk.
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They got lollipops for the drive there, and back!
Halfway up to Cathedral Rock, we stopped at a vista.
Before we turned back for lunch, we absorbed the view beyond the poplar grove.
The wind shimmered through the canopy, a chime of lightness.䷴䷩
the wild goose gradually draws near the plateau
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Our small world was expanded by the insertion of a minature home.
Green sheet, four chairs.
A tent.
Sleeping pads, pillows, blankets, stuffed animals.
An afternoon campout in the dining room.
Shelter within the shelter.䷉䷘
treading on a smooth level course
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Daddy Bear played the piano to accompany the show.
She staged the hare and the tortoise.
This time, the bunny was the wise one.
The tortoise lost handily.
He learned his lesson.
At the next race, they crossed the finish line together.䷏䷁
you gather friends around you
as a hair clasp gathers the hair -
He calls it a space-ship-walk.
I sat on the bed.
He climbed on, and sat on my shoulder.
I stood up.
He was scared.
Clasped his hands under my chin.
Then thrilled.
She too.䷽䷎
the flying bird brings the message
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Moving around the board in a mini-van, stacking cash.
I buy games hoping we will play them many times.
But really, how often?
A copy of LIFE in my wife’s colection.
Bought after they came to the States.
A girl and her parents, thirty years ago.
A girl and her brother, yesterday.
She made bank.
He jumped on the couch.䷫䷷
a melon covered with willow leaves
hidden lines -
I sang the lullaby that never lulled them to sleep.
The kids wanted a ride in the office chair.
I wanted to tell them to wait.
(while typing up a response on an internet forum.)
“This might be my last chance.”
I pushed them around the house until lunch was ready.䷬䷿
sublime and enduring perseverence is needed
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Her shield was a pink pillow with cartoon Star War figures, a gift from Australian visitors.
We played catapult last weekend.
One bed was a fortress of blankets and pillows.
I lay on the other bed and lobbed stuffed animals over the walls.
They jumped, blocked, and threw the animals back.
Surprisingly, mom didn’t give us grief about the mess.
Unsurprisingly, my shoulder was sore for a few days.䷮䷧
joy comes softly
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At dinner the boy took a spaceship to the planet of the kak-ka-roaches.
A roach sat on our fresh loaf of raisin-date bread.
Baked yesterday, resting overnight in the toaster oven.
The door was closed, but it didn’t stop him.
A burnt date with antennae.䷡䷍
a goat butts against a hedge
it cannot go backward it cannot go forward -
How did they do this before the internet?
Spent the afternoon looking up candidates.
State and local races.
This is their first step in the minor leagues.
The winners start the path to become big leaguers tomorrow.
(The ones we all love to hate.)
Early is when our votes count.
When noone else is paying attention.Go.
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there is game in the field