Thursday, April 9, 2009

Today, A Designer marries a Linotype machine and delivers a bunch of T squares.

The night was silent and cross. The 3rd of the Walker children is jumping the broom into Language Arts production. Wrestling with their minds to try to introduce the written word and vocabulary into them is always a challenge. I thought I was up to it! I thought I was prayed up! I thought I was ready. I have given up to them everytime. This time...
What is a complete thought? Not 12 complete thoughts in one sentence not 1/2 of a complete thought. A COMPLETE THOUGHT... The school is going to think that we are from another country. Everytime a Walker child has an art project it is college level output. A paper and they have to miss school. It takes a month and a half for them to write 2 paragraphs.
I have to sit on the side and watch the thinking process happen with them. I don't know what language they speak but it is all the same one. I was up and down till 4 and then awakened to help in the morning only to be told that my input was unacceptible to the patient and that it had to be done by the artists in the house...:{
I chose the wrong colors and put the wrong words. They are doing it again. I refuse to do it for him or them, but this is the initiation process for all of my younguns into the language of the real world. It is harder for Enoch, though because he was plugged into the gameboy for a while and language delayed as a result. I pray that they will survive.

3 comments:

  1. What a challenge!
    For me finding the action behind words became both intriguing and liberating ... The question~What does that look like? led me into puzzling out the behavior then the physicality then the drama of any given written document, especially of a play. It hooks me to this day. Light hearted and slowly that concept seeped into my writing too. What is the action what are they doing~may be a way for the offspring of the designer with the intellectual to navigate literature. Keep me posted!

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  2. Jo, You are an amazing writer. I can't believe you caught my drift! :) Ben says what great sentences you write! Love you!

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