Above: My son plays soccer. If he keeps this up I'm going to become a soccer dad. I'm not sure how I feel about that. September 20, 2005
Above: first day of kindergarten for our daughter, and fourth day of school for our third grade son, September 12, 2005
Our daughter brushes her teeth before her first day of kindergarten, September 12 2005
Leora in our kitchen, August 12 2005
One goofy eight year old boy, August 12 2005
June 2005
April 23, 2005 - My second grader at school. Photo by his uncle JT.
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Me and my girl, on the front porch at dusk,
August 12 2005, photo by AW
These hot August days I find myself busy at work, and on the weekends making time to clear out the basement from the detritus of 15 years of scholarship and 10 years of marriage. So today (August 13, 2005), some ten years after I finished my graduate studies I finally threw out most of the papers from that period of my life, saving only a few personal items. Little bits of useless plastic - we have boxes of it in the basement - they too are moving toward the trash now.
My meditation for this process is a man with a bowl, wandering the planet without possessions. I am determined to rid myself of things, even the ones that I claim, or once claimed, to be essential, like books. Not all of them, but many, many of them, and maybe in the end every last one of them. They cling to me and hold me back in my journey. I'm lightening the load.
April 22, 2005 - Friday evening, photo by JT.
February 20, 2005 - Leora and my father pick candles off the chocolate bundt cake the kids and I made for her birthday, in Cambria.
February 20, 2005, in Cambria at my father's favorite coffee hangout. Photo by my father.
January 13, 2005. I spent the entire day at home with my girl. We made muffins and cupcakes. To make cupcakes, put colored sugar sprinkles on your muffins. Then everybody is happy, both the people who want muffins and the people who want cupcakes.
January 8, 2005
In May of 2005 the old Documented Life, my online persona now for lo these last 3 or 4 years, metamorphosed from a static site into a WordPress 1.5 database driven site.
I'm also recoding many static pages into XHTML.
I was bored with looking at myself, but I like the idea of a lifelong autodocumentary, so a button on the right providing access to the old site seems like a good compromise between taking it down and leaving it front and center.
For now I'm doing something different on this 2005 page, with newest content at top, oldest content at bottom. All previous pages are top to bottom, oldest to newest. I'm not sure how that will sort out in the end. (2005).
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