The Science Teacher and Construction Worker

She stood up, she handed me her favorite Dr. Seuss, wordlessly telling me to read it to her.

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She claps with her whole body.

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There was an earthquake last night, I told him when he woke up. "You mean there are two tectonic plates rubbing against each other?" He quoted Nietzsche over lunch. Right now, the difference between my son and me is that he found out how vast the universe is --- he showed me how small earth and the sun is, in comparison to the many galaxies in the universe
Perhaps he won't be so surprised by our insignificance,

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In my head, there's an imaginary conversation

A: How can you read Che Guevarra on your staycation?
B: What's wrong with that?
A: He would rather die than stay in a hotel, your Che said.

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I will be a science teacher or astronaut while V. will be a construction worker, he said. Needless to say, he meant no insult to V., or to construction workers.

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At her age, 10, 11 months, she prefers one parent over the other. That baby center updates appraised us so. She prefers her mom, no question about it. She cries and sets off like an alarm when she's 1.5 feet away from her mother. But it only makes the moments she is with me much sweeter. Ealier tonight, you let me inside your play pen, and I read Neruda to you while you stood up, as if to assure me that you were never going to run away from me.

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I'm working in his room now. I'm documenting feedback listening to a Death Cab for Cutie song. He goes, "Can you add that song to my playlist?"

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Of course life's not all soap bubbles and butterflies, but thankfully enough, life isn't vapid or too tedious. We are together all the time.

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