From the monthly archives:

May 2006

To you we sing, and happiness we bring!

May 25, 2006

Yesterday was the second anniversary of my lovely and amazing child’s introduction to this world. For educational value, here’s my birthday reflections from her first birthday. It’s amazing to me that two years have passed since she was born. It seems like a heartbeat ago I was holding her to my chest for the first [...]

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Rio’s 2nd Birthday

May 9, 2006

Is approaching like a speeding train of social obligation and confusing expectations. I think I will host a small gathering for her on her birthday, Wednesday, May 24, at our home. Treats, gifts, etc. Between now and then: the famous piano moving project. For nefarious reasons of my own, I now want to do this [...]

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the moon is a circle

May 4, 2006

Rio, in the bath, suddenly moves her hand in a circular motion, one finger extended as if drawing in sand. “Circle. Circle. Circle,” she says. My delight cannot be overestimated. She knows a shape! and such a beautiful shape! a circle. she is holding, in her other hand, a circular cup full of water. We [...]