Month: July 2010

Post author By rebecca
Post date July 29, 2010
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Summer officially began months ago, but psychologically for me–since work actually gets busier in June and July, my summer starts in August.

My son finished his stint at summer school today–jumping 7 percentage points on his math test, which seems, to me, like a pretty good leap forward in 5 weeks’ time. He also wraps up his Bike Camp, successful at mastering the rudimentary (sans training wheels) biking skills. The bike trails call us by name, and I can’t wait to have my new biking sidekick near me as we explore the great summer ahead.

Now I just have to convince my son that looking ahead while moving forward is more critical than looking backward when moving forward. A bit of biking philosophy most of us need, including me, to apply to our daily lives!

Poems & art

Two works here

Post author By rebecca
Post date July 28, 2010
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Most of you might have seen these two pieces already, but since I never got around (’til today) to post two links to work published at mnartists.org–here you have them:

The Trousers

and

Birdman

Be well and think happy thoughts!

Peace out.

Ordinary Miracles Uncategorized

MJ

Post author By rebecca
Post date July 19, 2010
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My son has discovered the beauty of Michael Jackson’s voice. Granted, it’s been over a week of T-chan listening continuously to an extended DJ mix of MJ’s music that my husband had downloaded whenever we were driving about in the car.

Yet, finally, a few nights ago, when the car had stopped, but the music played on, he crawled up to the front seat frantically with a huge grin and he placed his ear near the front speakers. He first looked at me and then at Dad, full of joy, and then he began to sing along:

I wanna, wanna be where you are, oh, oh

Anywhere you are, oh, oh

I wanna, wanna be where you are, oh, oh

Soon enough, we were all singing. What is it about Michael’s voice that connects with people, that helps us transcend the everyday? Is it the clarity, the passion, the purity, the deeper resonance–all of it?

It doesn’t really matter. We were all singing very loudly and it felt like we, as a team of three, or actually of 4 (including MJ), that we were one powerful, unstoppable wave of positive energy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFL_gYXE6Rk