My posts have been falling off lately, and while probably only about two people on this entire planet other than myself have noticed, I feel compelled to offer some reasons.
1. It's gotten busier at work. I've been spending more time at work and as a result I have less disposable time. I'm really hoping this situation is temporary, as I do not appreciate working so hard.
2. More extracurriculars. The summer has been too busy by far. Summer is supposed to be a time of relaxation and recovery, but so far it's been very little of either. Drama at my son's school, illnesses, even a family wedding (yeah, I know, family weddings are supposedly prime blogging fodder, but...I've got nothing) have taken up too much time.
3. Children apparently don't understand, "OK. Time to go to bed." The past few weeks it has been 10 or 10:30, which means I'm falling asleep too and waking up sometime around 1:30 a.m. before dragging myself out of one of the kids' beds and into my own. Not very conducive to that nice evening reflective time (and even productive time) my wife and I used to enjoy.
As a result, I've missed a few things I've wanted to talk about, which I'll list out:
1. Going to see EMERGENCE-See at Arena stage. The show closed last weekend, but it was amazing. Daniel Beaty was high energy and fantastic rolling through character after character as he used the device of a slave ship rising out of the waters near the Statue of Liberty to take on the legacy of slavery on Black experiences in America (experiences plural because one thing Beaty makes clear in his performance is that nothing is singular about Black lives -- or any other lives for that matter).
2. My son's love for Charlie Chaplin films. In the past few weeks we've watched The Kid, Modern Times, and City Lights (thank you, NetFlix). He takes great joy in the physical humor Chaplin brings across and he also asks some interesting questions about the themes. He loves the self-feeding machine in Modern Times...
3. Various and miscellaneous. The usual garbage I write about Dear Leader's latest lies (can you by the way believe Tony Snow? I mean, press secretaries are by definition liars, but I do believe he takes the cake for the ballsiest lying imaginable), the state of education in the District, and other gems.
3 comments:
I got to listen to Gonzales lie, lie lie on clips from NPR. Thank you new fancy clock radio.
I'm sorry that summer hasn't brought you the relaxation that one would hope. It's too hot to have to move so fast! I look forward to you posting more when things lighten up. :)
Your son loves Charlie Chaplin? That is truly awesome!
It's hard to go to bed early when it doesn't get dark until 9:30. Of course that's easy for me to say. I don't have kids.
May the force be with you. No matter how often you post, I always enjoy reading what you've been thinking about.
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