
The six-year-old has some advice for everyone. He also drew this picture of me:


The six-year-old has some advice for everyone. He also drew this picture of me:


“I take the opportunity each day offers.”
—Andy Goldsworthy
I usually feel a tremendous letdown the morning after Christmas — major “What next?” pangs — but this morning the sun came out so we walked our cranky selves down to the beach and made a bunch of driftwood sculptures. (This afternoon we might watch Rivers and Tides.)


6-year-old was getting hangry at the pizza joint so I suggested we draw each other’s portraits. He wins again.

Sometimes when the 6-year-old and I get mad at each other we just pass notes back and forth under his bedroom door.


When you have kids you always find all this weird half-finished stuff lying around the house. (Half-finished drawings, half-finished bananas, etc.) I found this comic on the kitchen table, drawn by Owen at age 5. (“Julese” is his 3-year-old brother, Jules.) Drawn in a comic book notebook by The Unemployed Philsopher’s Guild.

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