Yo Mama

Since last summer Bryan and I have been sharing "Yo Mama" jokes. I accidentally stumbled across it on the app store on my android phone. Because Bryan read to me way too many bad "Yo Mama" jokes, I deleted the app. Now Bryan makes up "Yo Mama" in the car and shares them with me as we drive to various errands. Some of them are hilarious. One day in the future though, I can just imagine the children throwing "Yo Ma" insults at each other to my detriment. The weather this week has been beautiful and perfect in Ohio. Each moment from the rising to the setting sun is savored. Our family made it to the Dayton Art Institute. We started on the basement floor with African art. Breeanna and I studied a wooden door handle from Amcient Sudan that was shaped like the figure of a woman. I sketched it onto paper. The design composed of horizontal lines and X's. It's wonderful to take the time to recreate the shape and design, because in a way, I am doing what the original artist did. It helps me understand their point of creativity by walking in the path that they walked. The next object that we studied in the African Art part of the museum was a brown hunting tunic. Animal teeth and strings tide to it perhaps as a good luck charms and to offer a sort of camouflage. The footstool in the African art section was my favorite item. It had animal legs at the corners and a head at one end. It's very clever and reminds me of a child's rocking horse. Afterwards I immersed myself into learning about African art....Masks, Sculptures, Mediterranean Sea, Sub Sahara Africa and related topics so as to have information to share with the children at our next foray into African Art at the Dayton Art Institute. Friends who have studied art in college said that they understand history through art. I'm still trying to grasp with how history can be understood through art. History is so vast. Bryan, Breeanna and I started this week on our one year journey to improve our short term memory. We are starting with a deck of cards. Our mission is to memorize the entire deck. Day 1: Breeanna could memorize up to six cards. I memorized four cards. Bryan memorized three cards. It's been a little bit of a struggle to get the kids to go along with my wild schemes. 9/28/2013