Three Years Old Today!

Happy Birthday Silas. We Love YOU!
...and we will never forget the day you were born!

I love this little soapstone carving.

I made this in 1991 in Machakos, Kenya when I was 20. I was traveling at the time during a week off from classes (intensive swahili of which I remember very little). I went on an adventure with a friend... looking for artists willing to show us how they 'do what they do' and we stumbled upon a village called Kissii (where there are little mini-earthquakes ALL the TIME!) and I met a family there that let me hang out with them for a week. I watched them make the most incredible graceful carvings of animals in minutes. Even the children could do it! (I tried but ended up with 1/2 finished, crude impressions....)
When I left they gave me as much soapstone as I could carry and I carved a little bit everyday the rest of my time spent in Africa. I brought a few of the smaller pieces home with me on the plane a few months later.
This is one of them. It is very simple and is my favorite.
What is amazing to me is that it is a carving of a mother, a father and 3 children...long before I had any idea how my future would unfold. I also love that I even have a picture of me making it!

Just look at Them.

Every night all over
the globe
there are parents... watching
their babies
of all ages, for an extra
moment,
after they have fallen
asleep, before
shutting the light, and
feeling...
hoping...
knowing,
for the sake of their
young hearts,
that there is more
good than bad
in the world.

Remember E.T.????

Roasting Vegetables for Soup

It

feels

like

Fall

now.

SNL Tough on Obama, and Rightly So

Anyone else weirded-out, but not surprised, by the GOP's glee over losing the Olympic Bid??

read this article

Exactly what I have been thinking.

..." this episode (with the Olympic bid) illustrated an essential truth about the state of American politics: at this point, the guiding principle of one of our nation’s two great political parties is spite, pure and simple. If Republicans think something might be good for the president, they’re against it — whether or not it’s good for America."...
Paul Krugman

Toughies

the best Napkin Explanation ever...

Check out the Super Clear Napkin Slideshow about Healthcare...
just keep clicking the arrows...51 in all. Very well done!

Healthcare Napkins All

View more documents from Dan Roam.

We are going to be on the radio!

I am not sure exactly when we will get the live, semi out-of-the-blue call, but Brent AND Woofy will be talking to us about our CD.
They contacted us after hearing some of our songs....so, WOW! We are curious to see what happens. I wish we could actually see Woofy...Silas would be more into it, that's for sure. Right now phone conversations are difficult for him. He likes to talk about what's right in front of him. It often goes like this..."spidey slippers... and there is Mabel...and my lunchbox had a banana ...." A long string of non-sequiturs. Could be interesting.
You never know what Mac and Emmett might say on live radio either, not to mention MATT! Maybe not such a good idea afterall! ;)
I wonder if he's gonna ask us to sing?

Good One

NY Times article by Thomas Friedman. Check it out.

And, I will add, that Jon Stewart still remains one of the few to put the faux attacks from the right AND the left into perspective.

The Daily Show With Jon Stewart	Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c
America: Target America
www.thedailyshow.com
Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Ron Paul Interview

These Boys are Hilarious

Post-Impromptu-Beach Day, Pre-Pokemon DS Marathon,
Funny Stuff.

Silas Love

Nana can't leave the house without Silas wanting to chase her down to hold up the
"I love you" sign.
He's proud he can do this with his fingers and wanted to show 'shadow Silas' ....and also to "photobooth it to Baby Feee". His words.
Update:check Craig Cami and Finley's Blog for some more love...

Cami's Website!

I just love the pictures on Cami's Photography website. If anyone knows any pregnant mama's who want this time captured in an awesome and natural kind of way, recommend Cami! Maybe she'll have to come for a West Coast/Work trip!!! ;)
...And when you checkout the website you get to hear the original version of "Again"...recorded in my office while tickling Silas!

Check it out HERE

A blast from the past for BeBe's Birthday!

WE Love YOU!!

this is a good one!

Protect Insurance Companies PSA from Will Ferrell

get yourself a cup of tea and get peaceful...

International Day of Peace Assembly at SDCCS highlights...(some of you may need a tissue...)

Miss Morgan and her kindergarteners softening us all up...


Dmitry and Merrill and their 3rd graders singing in Hebrew... "shalom"...
(and, yes, that is a hobby horse microphone!)


what a wonderful world tear jerker...


hilarious 7th graders (with Mac on piano and Nick on guitar) singing "whirled peas"...


and of course, "all you need is love".
Happy Peace Day!!

Germ House.

First Silas, then Emmett...and let's hope it stops there because it's nasty.
We went to the doctor and it's not swine flu, just run of the mill flu/upper respiratory business and I refuse to get it. So there.
In line at the pharmacy they were both hacking and snotting so much into their shirts so as not to spread germs that it was comical.

A couple of people who were watching me say every 5 seconds, "cough catcher" or "cover your mouth with your shirt", finally said, "Wow. I bet it's really gross in there".
Tomorrow they go back to school. We'll see how that goes.

This face!

My niece Finley!
...thought of this little girl all day today (and during shavasin, cam!)
...she just started pre-school and is soooo her own happy self!
Just look at this face!!!
FEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

"So I am just a muggle."

Mac regrets to inform you all that
although she is 11 years old
she did not, by Sept. 1rst, receive
her Hogwarts letter of acceptance...
and is therefore
a muggle.

Bummer.