The weird thing is, I'm turning back into this!

As my son, whose birthday was yesterday, said, "We ARE DEVO!

Labels: baby, birthday, de-evolution

My Older daughter was fortunate enough to see The White Stripes live recently. I asked her to get me just one good shot of Jack playing, and she could use my camera.

Mission accomplished. This is a girl who, as a baby could communicate clearly without words. First baby I ever saw that always wanted to wear a hat. She'd go into a drugstore with me and organize all the items on the lowest shelves perfectly. She also had weird baby mojo that, whenever she walked up to a soda machine, she'd get a free soda just by pressing the buttons.

Here's the pic- it's also a link to a wallpaper:

Labels: baby, photography, picture, rock, rock n' roll, wow

Let's see some detatchment now, monks!
8 Monks + 2 Days + 1 little kid=



Here's the messenger from the universe at work:



LINKS TO THE STORY AND VIDEO AT ALL PIX & HERE

Now go listen to "Happiness Runs" by Donovan at the top......

Labels: action, art, augh, awesome, baby, beauty, belief, Buddha, enlightenment, mandala, monks, sand

These images come from a book with the same name as this post. I bought it at a flea market or some place and owing to my parental guilt for being on the road, went over it in great detail with my tiny son. We got to see the world that is gone, yet familiar. He understood, and all my children understand.

The book is by Berta and Elmer Hadler (who knew?- a Wikipedia link.) and published by MacMillan in 1941, dedicated to Gayle. This apparently was their schtick, being Caldecott winners.

The activities happening in a small town (not unlike mine) are described with illustrations containing a plethora of visual features as accompaniment.

It's another world.

Another World, I say.

Link @ Picture

if you want these pictures, get in touch.

Labels: animals, author, baby, bananas, bread man, chair, classic, color, eggs, furniture, Ham, kids, liberal, picture, squirrel, story, style, time, USA, why

Have you ever seen one of these things!?!?!?!!



I moved into a place near Atlantic City years ago and the place was infested with them. Our cat would de-leg them in the middle of the night and there'd be a neat pile of legs and a dead body next to it in the middle of the kitchen floor in the morning. Once I awoke at 3AM to my baby son's screams to see that there was one, back arched, on one of the uprights of his crib. The place had cobwebs in the basement filled with hundreds of exoskeletons of the dessicated corpses of them.

BUT There's a person who has obsessively documented the experience of this infestation better than I ever could, with quotes like:

"my sick fascination with house centipedes has led to this website, which I am hoping will cure my terrible fear of them"

"Don't be tempted to do what I did, however, and spray the aerosol can over a lighter."

"the scutigera-coleoptrata has the mildly psychic ability to sense when you are going to get something to kill it, including a paper towel or tissue, and go hide before you return"

Alternately funny and horrifying, it's definitely worth a look.

HERE is the wikipedia entry and

HERE is a link to a splendid image of one.

Labels: baby, basement, bugs, cat, cobweb, house centipede, infestation, scary