Sip It Slowly

Fading.

The door opens,

I cross over.

At first nothing,

Then everything.

The warm humidity of life smells like...

Dirt and flowers,

Fruit and fire.

Beating down deaths door.

Sip it slowly,

Deeply.

Awaken,

To clarity.

Live...AGAIN!

by Damon

Drawings from top to bottom and left to right, by Lucy, Kandus, Annie.
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We(Annie and I) have a new idea. We each write something and draw or take a picture of something and give it to the other. We match the picture with some literature and the literature with a picture. Then bring them together to see what we created together. We are hoping the kids will be interested in participating as well. It will be a fun family experiment.

Bike From Memory

Today the kids and I watched Brain Games, an interesting show about human memory and how it's not as easy to remember some things as you think it is. For instance, drawing a bike in the right composition. They asked a group of people to draw a bike from memory and then they would compose one just like their drawing to see if it was ride-able. Most of the contestants were thrown off or couldn't even ride at all. Only one person got it right. Well, I guess two. Damon also did. We quizzed him later on and he was so incredibly up to the task.