an old riddle (not a good one)
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Tue, Jan 26, 1993
Kirby's riddle: What has half the world seen but no one will ever see
again?
Marty's guesses: America? [No.] That place where the Presidents
statues are? [No.]
Kirby's Answer: Yesterday.
I asked him why only half the world had seen it. He said the rest were
asleep!
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I found that when I went to put a note in Kirby's diary file that he weighed
50 lbs when we took him to urgent care on January 15, 1993. The receipt says
"cut cheek." I don't remember a cut cheek, but I trust my own writing and
the "50 lb" note.
But the entry next to where I needed to insert that was the riddle above.
I think maybe he was thinking about the rotation of the earth, and it being
dark on one side while the other side is light. Maybe he had the idea that
some are asleep while others are awake, but not the whole 24-hour-clock thing.
Sandra
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Kirby's riddle: What has half the world seen but no one will ever see
again?
Marty's guesses: America? [No.] That place where the Presidents
statues are? [No.]
Kirby's Answer: Yesterday.
I asked him why only half the world had seen it. He said the rest were
asleep!
======================
I found that when I went to put a note in Kirby's diary file that he weighed
50 lbs when we took him to urgent care on January 15, 1993. The receipt says
"cut cheek." I don't remember a cut cheek, but I trust my own writing and
the "50 lb" note.
But the entry next to where I needed to insert that was the riddle above.
I think maybe he was thinking about the rotation of the earth, and it being
dark on one side while the other side is light. Maybe he had the idea that
some are asleep while others are awake, but not the whole 24-hour-clock thing.
Sandra
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One more.
In Moving a Puddle, the photo on page vi is from this day:
August 16, 1991
This week Kirby has been talking about “the West,” and cowboys, and the
desert, and the Old West a lot. I tried again to discuss directions with him,
and I talked about history, with examples like when Kirby was little we didn't
have a patio, and now we do, and when Marty was little we didn't have a door to
the patio, and now we do, and when the new baby comes those things will have
been there his whole life. He seemed to be getting the idea that the cowboys
used to be in this same place, but it was a long time ago, and that before
our house was built, it was the desert right where our house is, etc.
His most interesting expression about the whole matter was “People who live
in the East never get to see the sun go down.”
Keith and I took him and Marty “to see the sun set out West in the desert.”
We drove out Friday after work to the other side of Bernalillo, where Keith
knew of a dirt road that leads to Rio Rancho. We drove off on an old
leftover bit of highway, and off on this dirt road. (We took some pictures, so
that'll be in the kids' books.) It was a little muddy, and they found good
sticks (Yucca stalks) and we saw cactus and could find no animal tracks at all,
even though the road and a little wash had been very well cleared out by the rain
and were muddy (dry enough to walk on, mostly).. We found a horse's jawbone
with teeth (which Keith scouted out and let Kirby “find” and pull out of the
mud) but Kirby wasn't as impressed by that as he should've been. The sun
went down, and we came back. Kirby fell asleep on the way home and he was
satisfied (for a while) about the west and the desert.
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In Moving a Puddle, the photo on page vi is from this day:
August 16, 1991
This week Kirby has been talking about “the West,” and cowboys, and the
desert, and the Old West a lot. I tried again to discuss directions with him,
and I talked about history, with examples like when Kirby was little we didn't
have a patio, and now we do, and when Marty was little we didn't have a door to
the patio, and now we do, and when the new baby comes those things will have
been there his whole life. He seemed to be getting the idea that the cowboys
used to be in this same place, but it was a long time ago, and that before
our house was built, it was the desert right where our house is, etc.
His most interesting expression about the whole matter was “People who live
in the East never get to see the sun go down.”
Keith and I took him and Marty “to see the sun set out West in the desert.”
We drove out Friday after work to the other side of Bernalillo, where Keith
knew of a dirt road that leads to Rio Rancho. We drove off on an old
leftover bit of highway, and off on this dirt road. (We took some pictures, so
that'll be in the kids' books.) It was a little muddy, and they found good
sticks (Yucca stalks) and we saw cactus and could find no animal tracks at all,
even though the road and a little wash had been very well cleared out by the rain
and were muddy (dry enough to walk on, mostly).. We found a horse's jawbone
with teeth (which Keith scouted out and let Kirby “find” and pull out of the
mud) but Kirby wasn't as impressed by that as he should've been. The sun
went down, and we came back. Kirby fell asleep on the way home and he was
satisfied (for a while) about the west and the desert.
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