"Would you dance in the face of danger?"
We are driving by the school yard full of kids right as that song by David Byrne on The End of the World soundtrack begins with all the kids' playground chants. I look in the rearview and ask H.(age 5) if this is art imitating life or life imitating art. He levels me a gaze and coolly says,"Both."
Went to pick strawberries and asparagus(alas,too late for that,::sob::) at the u-pick-em field that we love. I hand the old black woman $4 for our 1/2 gal. of strawberries and smile knowing the irony of a bunch of white folks paying her to pick in her field must amuse her.
As we drove out there I saw a black man dressed in grey holding a yellow spade in one hand,a pot of pink flowers in the other standing looking down at a grave. As I ran that through my head- the colors juxtaposed,how I wanted to describe it to you, I turned to see Riley(age 2) keeping rhythm to Lou Reed on her thigh with a yellow shovel. Two yellow shovels in two seconds-kind of freaked me out for a sec.But he hadn't been burying a person, just planting flowers for them, so I calmed down.
Out of nowhere Holden asked,"Would you dance in the face of danger?" We all shouted, "Yes" all at once.
Went to pick strawberries and asparagus(alas,too late for that,::sob::) at the u-pick-em field that we love. I hand the old black woman $4 for our 1/2 gal. of strawberries and smile knowing the irony of a bunch of white folks paying her to pick in her field must amuse her.
As we drove out there I saw a black man dressed in grey holding a yellow spade in one hand,a pot of pink flowers in the other standing looking down at a grave. As I ran that through my head- the colors juxtaposed,how I wanted to describe it to you, I turned to see Riley(age 2) keeping rhythm to Lou Reed on her thigh with a yellow shovel. Two yellow shovels in two seconds-kind of freaked me out for a sec.But he hadn't been burying a person, just planting flowers for them, so I calmed down.
Out of nowhere Holden asked,"Would you dance in the face of danger?" We all shouted, "Yes" all at once.