Monday, January 07, 2019
Sunday, January 06, 2019
Saturday, January 05, 2019
Nerd Words
I love being at every panel I can squeeze in, so a lot of my photos today look like this:
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Friday, January 04, 2019
Back in Chicago
For the #MLA, this time without the kids...
A lovely reunion with Ra and then with Ro; made me feel like a grad student at Oxford all over again.
Later, I was explaining the difference between Ra and other advisors I've had to someone at a gathering and termed it being the recipient of "both brilliance and a kind of affection" and happened to look up to catch Ra's eye. Whereupon, she smiled and said, "you can use the l-word, you know." All the happy feelings.
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Thursday, January 03, 2019
Guess What We Did on Jan 3rd?
Finally got everyone in one place to take a "holiday" family picture! It's a holiday miracle!
Though Big A is a bit Ghost Dad in this one...
So here's Take #2
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Wednesday, January 02, 2019
Tuesday, January 01, 2019
Took the kids to yoga today
almost every bite at breakfast
is all please and bargaining
every footstep up to class
echoes with reluctance
every pose is desolate
as exit wounds
I'm holding, steadying, angling
them in my side vision--where
they're right there--by the door
so my practice speckles with
chuckles overfilling and now
spilling from my lungs
We're nicer on the way back
loosened and relaxed--me
from yoga, them because
they're done, by the time
we're home again, it's all
already a memory
And I think there will be other classes
warmed by them, memories of them--
keeping unspoiled from year to year;
the quiet, slow wonder of a stone
released and now flying lightly
borne forever over the water
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is all please and bargaining
every footstep up to class
echoes with reluctance
every pose is desolate
as exit wounds
I'm holding, steadying, angling
them in my side vision--where
they're right there--by the door
so my practice speckles with
chuckles overfilling and now
spilling from my lungs
We're nicer on the way back
loosened and relaxed--me
from yoga, them because
they're done, by the time
we're home again, it's all
already a memory
And I think there will be other classes
warmed by them, memories of them--
keeping unspoiled from year to year;
the quiet, slow wonder of a stone
released and now flying lightly
borne forever over the water
_____________________________________
Took the kids to yoga because the health chart was a desert (Friday, Dec 28th).
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