A small friend is turning 6 in two weeks.
She lives across the country,
and we can't make it to the luau party.
We can't come for cake and balloons and birthday hugs,
but we can send pineapples
and kitties
and fancy toothpicks.
They're like tiny, paper aloha hugs.
So, in shuttling wildebeests to soccer camp lately,
I have discovered a few good surprises
in being the carpool soccer mom.
Books on CD.
Car-goofy kids.
And sketchbook time
while all my soccer players
do their runs and drills.
Big chunks of sketchbook time
help when working out new ideas.
It's funny that I can sketch happy around a crowd,
but I can't write a drop.
My thoughts turn to stone and my stories sink.
But then, that's kind of a theme for me with words anytime lately.
I know some writers who scribble serious magic
in coffee shops and airplanes.
What about you?
When do you do your deep story work?
Can you create masterpieces with everyone there?
Do you thrive with hum and buzz?
Or do you like a hush when you create?
Wherever you find yourself this week,
I wish you peaceful breezes, sweet surprises, and
aloha.
Books {and CD books} we're enjoying this week:
Captain Cat by Inga Moore
Dream Friends by You Byun
Ling and Ting Share a Birthday by Grace Lin
Ling and Ting: Together in All Weather by Grace Lin
A Boy and a Jaguar by Alan Rabinowitz, ill. by Catia Chien
Where the Mountain Meets the Moon by Grace Lin
Chasing Secrets by Gennifer Choldenko
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oh my, this is great. My friends and I play speed scrabble, also a scrabble game where we up and move around the board - or move the letters around (hmmm...too complicated to explain - it is very zany and there may have been intoxicants involved). We also play pick-two - which is very like your speed scrabble - you need lots of players and much yelling happens. I love games.
Now that I have a grand daughter, I'm stocking up on great ideas...this is definitely one of them!
Jan, the intoxicated scrabble game sounds enticing! Maybe someday we'll meet in person and can shuffle letters around together!
Kate, Congratulations on your grand baby! For the record, they may be better for preschoolers and up. I had to confiscate them from our fridge because my one year-old kept popping them in her mouth.
Love the rock magnets! We play bananagrams a lot as a family, which sounds similar? Another lovely glimpse into your world. Thanks for sharing!
Coolest talking rocks I ever saw. And that blackboard drawing has Rembrandt, Picasso, and Klimpt wrtten all over it. Where would we be without woids? There would be a lot more finger pointing and gesturing, that's for sure.