Caught on tape:
“This is a close-up of our real family life: having boring stuff doing.”That’s our son Ben — at four or five? — as he roamed the house with a Fisher-Price tape recorder, interviewing and reporting. He and Rachel made countless cassette recordings: music, newscasts, skits, streams of consciousness. The energy of it all! We were listening earlier this week.
Since early August, I’ve kept my dad’s last word — “Thanks” — in the space below this blog’s title, as what Blogger calls “blog description.” With the turn of the year, I’m going to begin varying the description again, starting with a few of these words from Ben back in tykehood.
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comments: 2
I LOVE this! I was just blogging about choosing to Do Nothing Much.
Very gratifying to see it elsewhere too, but expressed better.
Happy New Year!
Same to you, Fresca.
Elaine reminded me of a Rachel bit (from childhood, on tape):
“What are you doing, Rachel?”
“Much of nothing.”
I like the words from Robert Walser’s Jakob von Gunten : ““To be small and to stay small.””
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