Happy May,
Today you’ve playing Jim, the fix it man, going around the house with one of my toolboxes, fixing our appliances and saving me from drowning in my kitchen. Mommy and I assembled another stay-at-home-retail-therapy purchase of an outdoor basketball hoop. The friendly neighbors down the street have one that we can shoot at, but their girls are older and can use the 10foot hoop. This one will stay at 8 feet where you’re able to make more baskets.
The latest 1 Second Everyday Video:
Here’s one of my projects since the stay at home order began….I’ve been sidewalk chalking a thank you a day to all the people who need support during this tough time – especially the essential workers.
What you’re doing these days:
In our home now, we continue to live, work, and learn like most people during this soft lockdown. Just this week, we had a driveway happy hour with the neighbor Mom who spent a lot of time with before everyone went inside. You played with them for a while (at a distance) which was encouraging. Real School has been canceled for the year, but you have Zoom Wednesday lessons with your teacher and started a small group session on Fridays.
Mommy and you ran (you scooted) to Sunset Hill Park and still had energy to do cartwheels on the grass.
you can tie your own shoes now
I found this drone in the trees at the place where I like to run. We put up a sign and returned it to the man who lost it.
We spend a lot of time on the neighbor’s trampoline while Kazoo and new bestie Sadie play. We play a lot of Marco Polo and you enjoy getting the “Peabody Bump” from me when my bounces propel you higher. One episode a week ago, you were a super hero girl who defeated the strongest 20 men in the world, played by me.
A recording
Here’s the latest in another one of my projects…..a Sonatina by Clementi. Here’s the opening allegro movement.
This is my best in the Vivace movement so far.
I’ve been at them for a couple of months….I’d like to get them perfected by the time we’re out of this coronavirus mess.
In my life these days:
On Friday, we went to see the renowned Coronavirus Opera Singer of Ballard. It ends up he lives less than a mile from us. We’re trying to get out and do something everyday, even if it is draw with chalk or ride or run around the block.
School continues to roll on. We’ve just finished our 7th week of Zoomed classes. The routine is tough, but I’m grateful that I have a job and my family is safe and healthy and our needs are met. That isn’t the case for a lot of people these days, unfortunately.
In the news:
Our governor just outlined a 4-Phase move to gradually lift the restrictions that have lasted two months. Yet, I just saw this article last night which doesn’t paint an optimistic future. In the paper, there are still bleak pictures of overloaded pictures of hospital beds and and rotting bodies in trucks in NYC.
Our country is divided on the severity and seriousness of the stay-at-home and social distancing recommendations as they have been politically these past few years. There seem to be more protests to recommendations by health officials – people not wearing masks, and Governors lifting orders early on contrast to the medical community. It really is a hard time – so many people are suffering in many ways.
A summary of a book or podcast I liked:
I just finished The Will to Change by bel hooks. It was recommended by the keynote speaker at our Young Men’s conference we hosted at my school in November. This book is a call to dismantle the patriarchy and redefine how men fit in the constellation of human relationships.
It’s time to go outside and shoot some baskets!
Love, Daddy