Monday, 9 October 2006
midquarter blues
It’s the halfway point in our quarter (RIT is on an eleven-week quarter system).
Sandra Boynton’s wonderful drawing sums up how I’m feeling at this point:
(The image is scanned from a notepad I bought years ago. Yes, it’s probably a copyright violation to post it. But so far as I know, it’s out of print—otherwise I’d point you to a licensed version. If you have kids, however, and don’t already own most of her board books and audio recordings, you must must must go to her site and acquire as many as you can afford. These books were a staple of my kids’ childhood, and they still make me happy. And the music…well, go listen for yourself. It’s fantabulicious. And while you can’t actually listen to cuts from Grunt*, you should buy it anyways. Trust me. )
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*I just noticed this great line on Sandra Boynton’s bio page: “I like to think of Grunt as the culmination of a lifetime of joyfully squandering an expensive education on producing works of no apparent usefulness.”
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I always thought that Boynton bit you put up meant that the kids couldn't do arithmetic...
Like thousands, I've seen the Boynton bits of whimsy all over the place, and each time that I do, I smile. It's surpassingly elegant and wonderful.
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