I had to post this, since I've been cracking up about it since Saturday.
The boys were in the bath, and they started screeching:
Ben: EEEEEEEEEEE! EEEEEEEEEEEE!
My wife: Ben! Use your inside voice.
Ben (quietly): eeeeeEEEEEeeeee.
― schwantz, Monday, 2 February 2009 22:58 (fifteen years ago) link
I heartily endorse this thread/post.
― PappaWheelie V, Monday, 2 February 2009 23:11 (fifteen years ago) link
When I told Ophelia told her for the gazillionth time to put her hand in front of her mouth when coughing.
"I don't have any coughs anymore."
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 08:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Every male person outside the family is currently known and greeted as 'Funny Man'. Or occasionally 'Mr Tumble' (the latter unfortunately applies to women as well).
― Archel, Tuesday, 3 February 2009 11:25 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha
― JAM, DWANGELA, RELLY! (sunny successor), Tuesday, 3 February 2009 14:28 (fifteen years ago) link
In the elevator at the gym with my wife, Owen read another woman's thoughts by asking "are you twins?" and then answered himself "yeah."
― schwantz, Saturday, 7 February 2009 05:39 (fifteen years ago) link
― JAM, DWANGELA, RELLY! (sunny successor), Saturday, 7 February 2009 14:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Thank you for starting this thread. I love this stuff.
A friend at work has a two year old who has started using "Obama" as a name for pretty much everyone. He asks qustions all the time about Obama too. They're potty training him and so the other night she was asking Henry who poops. He said, "Mama poops and Daddy poops and Henry poops!" She asked who else poops thinking he's say grandma or something and he replied with, "Obama poops!!"
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Saturday, 7 February 2009 15:31 (fifteen years ago) link
my 7 year old nephew to his mom:
"I stopped sucking my thumb. When you get older it loses its taste."
― sleeve, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 02:17 (fifteen years ago) link
That is exactly what I concluded about thumb-sucking (at an embarrassingly older age). Though it took having my arm in a plaster cast for seemingly years (I broke my arm three times in quick succession) to stop me in the end.
Also, Obama totally does poop!
― Archel, Tuesday, 10 February 2009 09:35 (fifteen years ago) link
Re: Honeymoon - "Did you GO to the moon?"
― lemmy tristano (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 12 February 2009 00:16 (fifteen years ago) link
my son when 3ish, upon eating something good: "I can't believe my mouth!" I promise he made this up himself.
― Euler, Thursday, 12 February 2009 00:20 (fifteen years ago) link
AWWWWW!!!
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Thursday, 12 February 2009 00:23 (fifteen years ago) link
My kids are too old for their current sayings to be here...
But, Alice (particularly) would say such WTF things back in the day. Most (or, man) are all over ILE, but here's one of the top ones...
She was about four, I reckon.
I was explaining the whole "eggs in mummy's tummy" business.
Alice: "But how did the eggs get there?"Me: "They were all there when Mummy was born"Alice: "hmm. So, that means My egg and Amber's egg are exactly the same age"Me: ".... yeah!"Alice: (saying nothing, but now has decided Amber doesn't have 2 years superiority anymore)
― Mark G, Friday, 13 February 2009 11:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Ophelia told her father: "Wannes is in love with me." I know, not the darndest thing but still made go all AAAAAWWWWWWWWW.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Friday, 13 February 2009 14:13 (fifteen years ago) link
― Euler, Wednesday, February 11, 2009 7:20 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark
Get that kid a TV commercial.
― Bonobos in Paneradise (Hurting 2), Sunday, 22 February 2009 07:21 (fifteen years ago) link
haha yeah
i was driving beeps home from daycare last week and had silver jews playing in the car. so black and brown blues comes on and i start singing along at the top of my voice when i look in the rear view mirror and beeps is smacking her knee along with the song with a big smile on her face. she catches me looking at her and says 'you go, mama!'. let it be known i have the worst singing voice ever. kid is good for the ego.
― quadratrillionaire (sunny successor), Sunday, 22 February 2009 14:57 (fifteen years ago) link
I will work on the tv thing!
I love that my kids love my singing. It helps that it's mutual; when they're caterwauling away I tend to complement them (you know, like you do when they bring you their latest painting or sculpture).
My youngest kid, age 2, went canvassing with my wife for the Dems during the campaign last fall. Now she's taken to calling the paper subscription inserts in magazines, "Democrats". I guess it's because they're like the voter info cards that we distributed? But now she is hoarding a big pile of these things and gets angry when you take her Democrats. Silly stuff but I love it.
― Euler, Sunday, 22 February 2009 16:21 (fifteen years ago) link
I love that all the two year old kids in SF know and mangle the words "Barack Obama."
― schwantz, Monday, 23 February 2009 17:25 (fifteen years ago) link
nothing like this ever happens to me
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Monday, 23 February 2009 17:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Howie knows a lot of animal names but always calls a cat "Miaow", even though he can spell the word. Hence the following conversation:
Us: "Howie, what's the first letter of cat?"Howie: "C!""And what's the second letter of cat?""A!""And what's the last letter of cat?""T!""[Pointing to letters in book] So, what does 'C-A-T' spell, Howie?""[Thinks for a moment...} Miaow!"
― Meg (Meg Busset), Monday, 23 February 2009 23:28 (fifteen years ago) link
my nearly 12-week-old has been babbling non-stop. it's such a nice change from shrieking.
― Oh Why, Sports Coat? (Dr. Superman), Thursday, 26 February 2009 19:17 (fifteen years ago) link
(Apologies if I've already told this story on ILX, can't remember)
A few weeks ago, Ava was being extremely naughty, pushing Pam away, shouting "Don't talk to me! Don't look at me!", etc. Pam wrote down "Naughty girls don't get visits from their friends or treats or get to go to the park" on a slip of paper and handed it to the noncommunicative hell-child.
Ava read it out loud, looked at the paper for a few seconds and then announced, "I'm going to tear this into tiny pieces." It was all Pam could do not to burst out laughing right there...
― Michael Jones, Saturday, 28 February 2009 21:25 (fifteen years ago) link
haa :)
― ice cr?m, Sunday, 1 March 2009 00:26 (fifteen years ago) link
this morning: "there are so many things in this room, it's like an optical course"
― 鬼の手 (Edward III), Sunday, 1 March 2009 00:46 (fifteen years ago) link
SS, that's the cutest thing ever! Ophelia requests all my music to stop playing so she can listen to her music. Grrr. Elisabeth loves most music we play. This morning she immediately started waving her hand when Marvin Gaye started singing. She also looooves Pulsinger.
― Nathalie (stevienixed), Sunday, 1 March 2009 13:30 (fifteen years ago) link
its still so weird to me these little creatures have already developed their own tastes. that silver jews moment was a rare one. usually she'll sit there going 'wonderpets? wonderpets? wonderpets? wonderpets? brobie? wonderpets? wonderpets? wonderpets? wonderpets? wonderpets? " etc until we put it on.
― quadratrillionaire (sunny successor), Sunday, 1 March 2009 14:04 (fifteen years ago) link
nickelodeon brainwash
she found a tampon and asked what it was. i mumbled her mommy bleeds every month and that it stops the bleeding.
"so mommy leaks."
uh yeah, i guess....
― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Friday, 6 March 2009 22:33 (fifteen years ago) link
Edward, I'm amazed. That's amazing.
― How can there be male ladybugs? (Laurel), Friday, 6 March 2009 22:41 (fifteen years ago) link
We remembered another one from our son a few years back, when he was 2-ish: out of the blue one day, he asked "why we is not ducks?". I didn't know what to say. Really, why? The mind boggles.
― Euler, Saturday, 7 March 2009 01:56 (fifteen years ago) link
My friend did this facebook thing earlier where she had to ask her kids a series of questions about herself and write in their answers. Her sons are around 6 and 4, I think.
Q: How tall is your Mom?
A: "15 degrees" -Ben "Probably 10 inches high" -Zac
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Saturday, 7 March 2009 04:50 (fifteen years ago) link
i seriously can't get over "15 degrees"
― been HOOS, where yyyou steene!? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 7 March 2009 05:02 (fifteen years ago) link
I know, I love it.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Saturday, 7 March 2009 05:03 (fifteen years ago) link
I showed Beeps a full page face ad of Gisele Bündchen in the lastest issure of Glamour and asked 'who is that?' She replied 'Mama!' Damn straight.
― quadratrillionaire (sunny successor), Sunday, 8 March 2009 03:30 (fifteen years ago) link
keep that one around!
― yur twit (tehresa), Sunday, 8 March 2009 03:35 (fifteen years ago) link
hopefully her eyesight will never improve
― quadratrillionaire (sunny successor), Sunday, 8 March 2009 03:37 (fifteen years ago) link
Howie does that when we read the book 'Terrible Trolls' -- points at them and says "Mummy! Daddy!"
I will have to send him round to Beeps for some training.
― Meg (Meg Busset), Sunday, 8 March 2009 13:02 (fifteen years ago) link
A keeper! :-)
― the tip of the tongue taking a trip tralalala (stevienixed), Monday, 9 March 2009 14:19 (fifteen years ago) link
z (4-yr-old) industriously constructing puzzle on the floor, while rex (11 mos.) repeatedly crawls through it, picks up pieces, sticks them in his mouth, etc. z fairly patiently nudges rex away two or three times, says "no, rex," but on about the 4th time, in exasperation, he yelps, "DAMMIT REX!"
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Monday, 16 March 2009 23:50 (fifteen years ago) link
kids swearing: classic. One of my kids didn't really understand what the word dammit was, so he'd say, "debit", as in "debit card", which got us off the hook with my mother-in-law.
― Euler, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 00:27 (fifteen years ago) link
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Monday, March 16, 2009 6:50 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
ok so this is the funniest/cuetest thing i have read in a while
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 02:01 (fifteen years ago) link
Agreed. That's so cute.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 12:37 (fifteen years ago) link
it cracked us up. but i guess we need to do some policing of it before he gets to kindergarten.
― paper plans (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 17:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Apparently in kindergarten I referred to a toy car as "that goddamn son of a bitch". Wasn't mad, that's just what I called it.
― WmC, Tuesday, 17 March 2009 17:14 (fifteen years ago) link
i once very cheerfully yelled to my pal "see you later, asshole!" as our parents were taking us home from preschool. my mom was not, uh, thrilled
― i like to fart and i am crazy (gbx), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 21:54 (fifteen years ago) link
^ That is awesome.
― Too Into Dancing to Argue (ENBB), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 22:51 (fifteen years ago) link
ha i once came home from school in 1st or 2nd grade and told my parents "the bus driver is an asshole" not really knowing what that meant :-/
― HHooHHHooHH-oob (harbl), Tuesday, 17 March 2009 22:53 (fifteen years ago) link
Alice has been known to bang her fist on the table and yell 'dammit!' but I strongly suspect her dad has been coaching her for his own amusement. Though come to think of it she's also started a thing of regularly shouting 'it's a deal!' and shaking hands with us. Clearly a future CEO :(
― Archel, Thursday, 19 March 2009 09:36 (fifteen years ago) link
OK, heree goez:
In Venice, back at the flat, playing whist:
Mum: "Hearts!"Alice: (Oh, fuMMMFTH)
The sound of Alice slapping her hand over her mouth, too late.She got embarrassed, we just laffed. (She was 8)
― Mark G, Monday, 23 March 2009 14:02 (fifteen years ago) link
These are sooo goood
dan there's a really good telling of the Greek myths suitable for kids that has this neat framing device of a storyteller who's travelling to a storytelling competition, and the stories are all as if he's telling them to people he meets along the way. I'm on a train but I'll try to find it when I get home. The language is really nice and the stories are a good length. Ah hang on I found it - Atticus the Storyteller's 100 Greek Myths - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/337789.Atticus_the_Storyteller
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 15:55 (three months ago) link
Cool, will check it out. She has a book or two on greek myths, but most of her knowledge comes from repeated listening to the podcast Greeking Out. She still agrees that she's not quite ready for the Percy Jackson books, which people tend to recommend for age 8 or so.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 15:59 (three months ago) link
Those poems are both amazing!!!My daughter now 11 burned through many Percy Jackson books a few years ago. I read the first one aloud with her and wasn’t impressed. I found both the writing and the character depth to be a cut below most of the oodles of other kids’ fantasy series we’ve read. I imagine as you get deeper into it you get invested, it’s a pretty big extended universe, but I would agree that 7 is young. They’re violent.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 17:30 (three months ago) link
yeah. the writer has a "presents" series of other mythological stories and one sounded good and was supposed to be ok for younger, called Race to the Sun. It was actually pretty violent and scary at times but she was never bothered by it.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 24 January 2024 17:36 (three months ago) link
"Why does goofy talk but pluto doesn't?" made my brain explode, I love that so so much. Very New York school, which obv makes sense ;-)
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Wednesday, 24 January 2024 23:44 (three months ago) link
awesome poems!
― kinder, Thursday, 25 January 2024 20:57 (three months ago) link
tired kid got in a shit tonight about having to turn his light out before finishing his book. after about 10 minutes in bed he came down to where we were watching TV and said "I'm going to say ten words including these ones. Sorry." then disappeared to bed again.
― kinder, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:53 (three months ago) link
That's brilliant.
― Kim Kimberly, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:55 (three months ago) link
whoa!
― peace, man, Saturday, 3 February 2024 12:31 (three months ago) link
5yo"don't think about telling mom i went in the store without a coat"" ... ""YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT IT"
― maf you one two (maffew12), Sunday, 11 February 2024 19:28 (three months ago) link
Opal wrote and drew a valentines day car, with an image of a Dachshund. It says "We Be-long together".
When she recites it she puts a lot of emphasis on LONG. Then says "get it?"
Then she asked me what melancholy meant after it was mentioned in Through the Looking Glass which I'm reading to her every night. After explaining it (more or less) she said I can remember that because watermelon is great and cauliflower isn't and if you put them together it's gross and that would make me sad.
Then she came up with an as-yet drawn valentine card that would be a drawing of a slice of watermelon saying "I would be MELON-choly without you"
Emphasis on MELON obviously.
I told her we should go into business making cards and I suddenly regret selling all of my letterpress equipment.
― dan selzer, Sunday, 11 February 2024 22:27 (three months ago) link
aw
― peace, man, Sunday, 11 February 2024 23:43 (three months ago) link
melon cauli is an awesome concept
― kinder, Monday, 12 February 2024 13:03 (three months ago) link
My younger kid asked the question every parent dreads:“Daddy, why did they take the ‘HBO’ out of HBO Max?”
― atmospheric river phoenix (morrisp), Friday, 16 February 2024 02:02 (two months ago) link
Time for the talk
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Friday, 16 February 2024 02:20 (two months ago) link
A question a child might ask, but not a childish question
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 16 February 2024 02:37 (two months ago) link
Today she asked my wife — “Mommy, what is ‘Robert Lowe’ famous for?”
― Bison UpChg (morrisp), Monday, 19 February 2024 02:30 (two months ago) link
My older kid asked me what a “mosh pit” is, which I thought was pretty funny.
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Friday, 23 February 2024 04:17 (two months ago) link
it’s like a ball pit made of people
― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 23 February 2024 06:05 (two months ago) link
Absolutely full of germs.
― Madchen, Friday, 23 February 2024 07:30 (two months ago) link
“Why do psychopaths have such a bad reputation?”
― Sony's Sports Walkman Universe (morrisp), Thursday, 29 February 2024 21:58 (two months ago) link
Lol, is that promoted by the press campaign around this book (and perhaps this very interview)?https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/02/25/magazine/patric-gagne-interview.html
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Thursday, 29 February 2024 22:40 (two months ago) link
lol
― A street taco cart named Des'ree (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 29 February 2024 22:41 (two months ago) link
wow, some very sophisticated abstract wordplay by Opal
― A street taco cart named Des'ree (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 29 February 2024 22:43 (two months ago) link
She hasn't stopped. She keeps writing poems. She wrote one for school that said "inspired by Dr Seuss" and is like "I do like tacos on a boat..."
My wife is having her book launch party at NY bookstore P&T Knitwear and apparently Opal is going to read the above poem about poems. I think it's likely she'll freeze and back out but we'll have to see.
― dan selzer, Friday, 1 March 2024 04:44 (two months ago) link
my 9 year old son is really into sports leagues and stuff. whenever he does 'creative' projects it's making tournament brackets or organizing teams into divisions and stuff like that. we have this little baseball game and he wants to make a tournament to replicate the actual MLB playoffs. he also uses his little Chromebook for this stuff (there are online scoreboard apps and such). anyway recently he stumbled upon some website which sells software used for scheduling for businesses, which has a promo image that looks a bit like a baseball schedule. apparently he input his email address into the "find out more!" box (Chromebooks accounts have to have a gmail address) and now a sales rep is contacting him. he is writing back telling him about his baseball league using all these long run-on sentences, as kids do. but this dude keeps responding to him. he even knows his name - Andy. he got home from school yesterday and had to check if Andy wrote back to him. I wonder if this guy thinks he's talking to a kid or an elderly person. either way my son thinks he made a new friend!
― frogbs, Friday, 8 March 2024 15:49 (two months ago) link
amazing
― dan selzer, Friday, 8 March 2024 16:14 (two months ago) link
Opal's latest poem, a birthday card for her best friend Peter, who's birthday is the day after hers...
"When I'm in need your always there. Your always kind and you always share.You have lots of trick up your sleeves.We work together just like branches and leavs.When we are together we are one of a kind, no catagory.When we are together we have a crown of glory!This is the end of this poem, but before we drop the curtan,When we are together, nothings for certain!It's the end but still the start.I want you to know your always part of my heart."
― dan selzer, Friday, 8 March 2024 16:17 (two months ago) link
omg these last 2 posts are both amazing ♥️♥️♥️♥️
Opal rules at poetry!
― A street taco cart named Des'ree (Deflatormouse), Friday, 8 March 2024 17:37 (two months ago) link
book deal pls stat
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Friday, 8 March 2024 20:49 (two months ago) link
last night during dinner Opal was talking about what our lives must've been like before we were born and she said "You spend all your time sitting on the couch reading a book called 'The Meaning of the Word Sad'" and after we cracked up at that she said "and a book called 'I'm Blue, What Should I Do?"
― dan selzer, Saturday, 9 March 2024 12:28 (two months ago) link
my kid's been into video games since he was 5 (thank you pandemic) but he's getting to the point where he wants to go beyond Mario stuff. the kids in his class are really into Fortnite and Minecraft and I don't really want him to be into that sort of stuff just yet. he does love sports though and gets really excited about sports arcade games so I was telling him about Madden. and he nodded his head and said "oh so it's like Linebacker Alley 2!!"
― frogbs, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 03:10 (two months ago) link
"You spend all your time sitting on the couch reading a book called 'The Meaning of the Word Sad'"
this is amazing and hilarious
― Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 13 March 2024 03:46 (two months ago) link
9yo has 'opened a detective agency' for any mysteries I may have.He said 'You don't have to pay me anything for detective work, just be nice to me. To me, that's worth about £1.50'
― kinder, Wednesday, 3 April 2024 16:52 (one month ago) link
A kinder detective agency if you will
― Comfortably numbnuts (Heez), Wednesday, 3 April 2024 17:49 (one month ago) link
Opal's latest poem. She was proud to say it's her first poem that doesn't rhyme. Even though it sort of does. But I understand what she means.
Still
The clouds are stillThe pond is stillMy thoughts are stillThe rocks are stillThe houses are stillMy pencil is stillThe cars are stillMy room is stillMy bed is stillMy heart is stillThe night is still
― dan selzer, Thursday, 11 April 2024 13:33 (one month ago) link
Wow! She has a knack for it, for sure.
My daughter's (age 13) creative outlet is through her digital art, which I'm not going to share here. Some of it is fan art, but she has a lot of original characters as well. And on more than one occasion, she's told me these complicated stories explaining her art. I've begged her to write them down, but she won't do it. I've even offered to take dictation, just so she can have a record of these creative impulses, but she hasn't taken me up on it. I want her to be able to remember it, just because I know that she barely has any memory of the characters and universes that she created when we would play toys together in her early childhood. I've also tried explaining to her that when she gets older, these stories could serve as a good basis for something to revise and put out there into the world.
― peace, man, Thursday, 11 April 2024 14:27 (one month ago) link
Could you record the conversations with her?
― Jaq, Thursday, 11 April 2024 15:48 (one month ago) link
Well, it's been a while since she has brought up any of the stories around her art. When she shows me her new characters, I still ask if there is any background. If there is, she hasn't let me in on it. The longest stories that she told me were probably a year or so ago. Maybe I'll ask if she still remembers them and would be comfortable with recording them. Thanks for the suggestion.
― peace, man, Thursday, 11 April 2024 17:10 (one month ago) link
Here's Opal's latest poem. I'll stop sharing all of these, it's getting too much. This one she described as her "Shakespeare Poem", we're not sure what she means by that, she's never read Shakespeare or had any read to her, she's only had the plot of Romeo and Juliet described to her. I think she thinks it's deep and uses the word "thee" and thus is Shakespeare. Also note, this is firmly tongue in cheek. She's written some sad ennui-filled stuff in the past, but this is a joke to her for sure, apparently the title is a phrase she repeats over and over again to annoy two of her classmates.
"Floating in a void of only blank existence––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––
I love thee more than we can seeFor "no us" meansnothing and there's alwaysa new beginningand we are floating in a void ofblank existence. Yes my dear, listen and hear.We are floating in a void ina void of blank existence.Floating in a void of blank existence.
-opal"
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 11:23 (four weeks ago) link
Opal's (very good) poem reminds me of:
"This is not about a kingdom which is in the past, but it is about a kingdom called Not, which although it is not, yet is” — Sun Ra, KINGDOM OF NOT, rec.1956
Which is also good (and also repeated to annoy)
― mark s, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 11:47 (four weeks ago) link
I'm enjoying Opal's poems.
― Kim Kimberly, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 13:42 (four weeks ago) link
thanks.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 14:33 (four weeks ago) link
https://y.yarn.co/c4c95f9b-86f9-42bc-8319-95ccc3e7b392_text.gif
Whereas my 9yo managed to insult the whole of Wales when we were out walking in Cardiff (we live in England) - he saw a sign and said "Why does that sign look like a child typed random letters on a typewriter?" - he wasn't trying to be clever, I think it hadn't occurred to him what the Welsh language looks like, despite having a friend who speaks Welsh with his family...
― kinder, Wednesday, 17 April 2024 16:35 (four weeks ago) link
You're child's right about what Welsh signs look like!
One day when she's older Opal's going to google and find all of these and get really mad at me for sharing them. Sunday we took the train into the city and as we neared the station Opal noticed a tiny "tree" had sprouted on top of the stairs (the little roof over the stairs). Apparently she wrote this in school yesterday, folded it up and put it in her shoe. My wife just found it and sent me a pic. I added the paragraph breaks. That's my license and prerogative. It is definitely what I needed to read this morning.
A BURST OF GREEN
One day, in mayon my way to manhattan,on top of the station,I saw something tostart a conversation.
A tiny tree!Something to see!It inspired me,that little tree.
I smiled. It was somethingthat would cheer up anylittle child.
That little tree inspired me,and I hope this poem inspires you.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:17 (one week ago) link
Jeez Opal find an illustrator and publish already
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:29 (one week ago) link
Something very Margaret Wise Brown about that one. It also reminds me of Madeline - the big city, and even the rhythm of it
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:30 (one week ago) link
Totally get that. Madeline for sure.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 7 May 2024 14:34 (one week ago) link
Opal needs her own thread if not published book of poetry.
― Esteemed character actress (sunny successor), Friday, 10 May 2024 17:44 (five days ago) link
Agreed.
She started a book of poems for mother's day but when i asked her about it this morning she said it might not be done and she has a back-up plan. I said you don't need to fill the whole thing with poems, and you have a bit more time. I really wanted to see the rest, when she showed it to me last week it was just a cover and one poem. I asked her what the back-up plan was and she said it was a secret. I have to say this is a nice shift from times when I'm trying to figure out what to do for my wife's birthday/holidays/mothers day etc and also have to help her get something together. Soon I'll just let her take the lead and I'll give her some cash or something and ask to sign my name to whatever she comes up with.
She does have a habit of starting these projects and not finishing. We've bought a few boxes of these little blank notebooks and there's so many that are just a cover and like, a table of contents. Sometimes there will be a synopsis and author's blurb quotes on the back, but no story! I'm not saying I want to pressure her into finishing things now, she's 7, but I really wanted to see more of the mother's day poems.
She made a library in her room. Taped up some boxes and it says "opal's library" and it has all her books in it and she asks us if we want to borrow any.
― dan selzer, Friday, 10 May 2024 18:51 (five days ago) link