'Daddy, how many whoppers are there in those tall trees?' After waking up in the car while driving through Calaveras Big Trees and hearing daddy say, 'Wow, that's a whopper of a tree.'
Patrick McClelland at age 6
Nobody has ever before asked the nuclear family to live all by itself in a box the way we do. With no relatives, no support, we've put us in an impossible situation.
Margaret Mead (1901-1978) Anthropologist
The roaring of the wind is my wife and the stars through the window pane are my children. The mighty abstract idea I have of beauty in all things stifles the more divided and minute domestic happiness.
John Keats (1795-1821)
When you have snowflakes in the clouds in the sky and you have mountains, you get snow. That's how it works.
Patrick McClelland (Age 4)
“I like lights on buildings, because without them you wouldn't be able to see all the beauty in the world.” (About the lights on the football field at the local highschool.)
Emily woke me from a nap to read to me the poem that she was so proud of. She then left it on the counter for like a couple of months, so I figure it must be something she really wants to keep.
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1 Steve on Sep 6, 2011 at 12:27 pm
Emily woke me from a nap to read to me the poem that she was so proud of. She then left it on the counter for like a couple of months, so I figure it must be something she really wants to keep.
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