The last twenty-four hours of the twenty-eight day month. And a right-nice twenty-eight days it's been.
- Starting February being iced in and re-memorizing a Langston Hughes poem--ending this weekend out and about Fort Worth enjoying the warm weather.
- Watching the celebration of Ronald Reagan's 100th b-day on Feb 6th while running on a treadmill--seeing Reagan's photo on a sign at mile 21 yesterday on my marathon route with the words "Mr. Gorbachev: Tear Down this Wall!"
- Buying the rest of the Laura Ingalls Wilder series to round out our collection.
- Listening to and reading Our American Cousin, the play Lincoln was attending the night he was shot.
- Enjoying the kids' Valentine's gifts especially Calvin's DVD of West Side Story which we watched this weekend over two nights. (And hearing Lelia compare and contrast it with Romeo and Juliet which she saw at the Dallas Opera last week on a field trip. And hearing Wesley compare it to Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame.)
Letting Winslow Homer teach us about skies and clouds on the 24th--seeing an original Winslow Homer while we were in Forth Worth this weekend at the Amon Carter Museum.
Remembering the art of Grant Wood on the 13th--seeing an original Grant Wood Parson Weem's Fable at the Amon Carter Museum. This one was more exciting, I think, than the Homer painting they had. It had a little for everyone. The kids loved finding details they hadn't seen in the on-line viewing. For example, the cherries lining the curtains and that the face of George Washington was an adult face on a child's body. I enjoyed the hermeneutical lessons exemplified in this painting--which I'm still processing and hope to incorporate into my teaching at some point in the future. - And it's not quite over, if you have a chance, watch the Senate's annual reading of George Washington's Farewell address today on C-SPAN 2. Or read it together with the family tonight.
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