While I’m working (“working”? Taking a break?) from home & can upload things here is one of Noah’s first drawings of a face, which he drew about three weeks ago. He actually did quite a series of them, both on the pad of paper I’d given him and then in my work notebook as I was not paying attention to either. (The squiggle that looks like a hand is pretty random; in other drawings those are circles underneath. They are variously identified by Noah as “lips” “tongue” and “buttons,” depending on when you ask.)
I sort of like taking notes on meetings over them – attack of the egg people!
As an incidental historical note I was musing over the paper dilemma – what sorts of things should we have around for drawing; is he condemned to recycled bits or what? Anyways as I was thinking back to childhood I realized we always had a box full of these wonderful rectangular pieces of card-stock weight paper to draw on. Of course there were occasionally holes in them because they were the PUNCH CARDS that held various runs of the data for my father’s dissertation. Like, punch cards that you fed into a fancy new computer thing the size of a room.
I am old. And I have no way to prepare my son for his future, in that sense. Just think my dad was doing that when I was older than Noah, and if I wanted to be, I could be typing this entry on my Blackberry.
